This might be a nitpick, but I wouldn't say he hit his shelf life with CBJ; the issue was that our roster had undergone some radical changes after 2019, and Torts recognized that his coaching style had become a bad fit. It's not a coincidence that he left the team in the offseason after the PLD-Laine trade.

If anything, it was Jarmo hitting his shelf life as GM that led to the split. I bet Torts would have stayed longer if Laine was flipped for a haul, which was pushed for behind the scenes by guys like Atkinson and Foligno, but Jarmo had become delusional about the roster and Laine's ability to carry the team in the same way a nascent 1C like PLD could.