Ok, in case you missed the main point of his statement: from the start of his work here, Suhonen always stressed, that Austria needs his own identity in hockey and one part to reach this goal is to train and develop austrian coaches for austrian players. Because at this time this species almost does not exist at a professional level here. So how to hire austrian staff, when in reality at this point there's not really much there to hire? These kind of things will need their time, but somebody has to start it. Thankfully Suhonen at least tries to change something here. And I think, Suhonen did right with Ratushny and Bader, but that's my personal opinion. Maybe Viveiros teams scored more goals, but it was his choice, to quit as coach once the season was over (just like Daum), only to change his mind, after he was unable to land a headcoaching job in the EBEL or somewhere else. At this time (and after the Sotschi-mess), it was no surprise (at least for me), that Suhonen did not plan with Viveiros anymore. Btw, last year's TopDiv Performance was one of the best of the last 10 years and today Austria could've also been the Nation to be promoted. So I can't agree with you, that Ratushny performed poorly. For sure not perfect, but this is not a perfect world. And he still has the task & mission to rebuild the squad (for reasons of +10 years of mismanagement at the NT-level) - with this kind of players, Viveiros imo never ever would've won against Germany and Switzerland or would've been in the race for promotion to the TopDiv. I'm not saying that Suhonen oder Ratushny are faultless (for example i'm questioning their communication with some - older - players), but when i compare their work with the last 10 years before, i know, what i prefer. Better small things are happening instead of nothing.
I understood that he said that in context of building a coaching generation, and he has followed that up by holding many coaching clinics, however, when he said it at the press conference he said it continuous with the announcement on Viveiros, and the impression I got was that it was almost a polite excuse for the firing.
Secondly, Viveiros never quit, he was let go. My german is terrible, but the meaning of the headline "Viveiros muss gehen" doesn't mean Viveiros is stepping down. I remember the split very well, perhaps as you said it was necessary because of the outrage after Sochi but he did not leave on his own accord. In fact Viveiros' comments after being let go were to the tune of "this is because of Suhonen, Kalt still likes me" (paraphrasing heavily) http://orf.at/stories/2227963/
I think Bader was a good decision or at least the right idea. I think Ratushny was the right man, because he really healed a lot of the relationships between the program and the players, he was a good man, but he was not necessarily a good coach. The bolded part is not exactly accurate in my opinion. Ratushny was not given his players, he chose not to play Unterweger, Altmann, Obrist, Koch, Nodl and many others. He chose to play Fechtig, Lembacher, S.Geier, Oberkofler, etc. He was not given a poor hand, he created one for himself. Perhaps I am a Viveiros sympathizer but I do not think the program was mismanaged under Viveiros either. Viveiros perhaps had good players, but he also did not have Komarek, or Heinrich, or Manny Geier and even Stefan Ulmer has improved since 2013. Thus I do not think one can simply disregard beating Slovakia and Latvia in 2013, and getting promoted to top division very consistently under Viveiros. The coaching level has improved among the youth levels, I particularly like Andreas Brucker, and I see Austrian hockey going in an upwards trajectory. I think that the time for change has arrived, however, and fortunately it can take place without any hard feelings.
