Lucky for coaches that unretiring doesn’t carry all the red tape that it does for NHL players.



The rules are a little easier on the guys behind the bench that way, as well they should be, given how easily they are disposed of when teams go into the sewer.



After going nearly an entire season last year without a head coach being fired — Alain Vigneault was let go on the final weekend by the New York Rangers — we’ve had four coaches dismissed in 17 days and there will likely be more.



Todd McLellan was the latest victim on Tuesday, mere hours after Mike Yeo met the same fate. Both are good coaches, of course, but after a while every single person behind the bench in this league pays the price when underperforming rosters look unrepairable by current management.



The salary cap makes it more difficult to make bold roster changes in-season. Believe me when I say the Blues and Oilers would have loved to make a roster-rattling move...