I don’t think Guerin has been a problem in building that team. Minnesota’s problem has been a lack of consistency in the postseason.

Guerin isn't going anywhere until a year or 2 after the buyouts are over with. It was his idea to do that and the only reason he got the job, cause he had enough balls to do it. He's done a tremendous job some how keeping the wild competitive during this while hiring a scouting staff who is loading up a prospect pool to set us up very good in the future. So he will be able to see his plan out thru the end then if it fails after then he could be gone.

Chuck Fletcher had a long rope to hang himself with, Leipold will give Guerin the same chance. Fletcher's huge gamble was signing Parise and Suter to those big deals, which got them to consistently appear in the playoffs which seems to be good enough for Leipold. Guerin's approach seems to be load up the prospect pool and see who pans out, while still competing for playoffs each year. That takes time to see how it works, so I'm guessing he'll have at least 4 more years to produce any results.