Sacco was canned as the coach of the Colorado Avalanche after a 130-134-30 record in four seasons with one playoff appearance in 2010. Odds are general manager Greg Sherman will soon be joining him in the unemployment line, as no replacement was named. After a promising start to his coaching career in the NHL, Sacco failed to lead the Avs to a playoff appearance, with the final straw being a rant from J.S. Giguere in the midst of the team's slide in the last half of this season. Sherman is almost certainly going to get axed, as he was at the helm for some bad trades, ranging from Erik Johnson and Jay McClement for Kevin Shattenkirk and Chris Stewart to Semyon Varlamov for a first and second round pick in 2012.
As for Nieuwendyk, he was relieved of his duties as general manager of the Dallas Stars. At the helm since 2009, Nieuwendyk made his fair share of bad moves, such as trading James Neal for Alex Goligoski and trading Steve Ott for Derek Roy. Seemingly, the Stars were without a clear direction as far as what they wanted to do, and fair or not, that falls on Nieuwendyk. No word on the future of Glen Gulutzan, who was his hand-picked coach after canning Marc Crawford after the 2010-11 season.
It's been a major fall for two teams that dominated much of the late 90's and early 2000's as far as making the playoffs are concerned. Whoever comes in to try and revive those franchises will undoubtedly need to know what they want to do and have a clear plan in getting there.
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