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I certainly would not have hated the hiring of Fassel, and I do wonder how much of an impact the fan's insanely negative reaction towards him had to do with this decision to pass him over.

But at the same time I liked the decision to gamble on Zorn. Sounds like a lot of the candidates that were interviewed were very high on him, Fassel included, and I guess they finally realized that they had a solid HC candidate right under their noses. Time will tell if this is too much too soon for Zorn, but on the plus side he's got an experienced staff around him that should help ease him into things.