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Originally Posted by Bertuzzied
hahaha. i'm glad you typed all that out given that your think Brent Sutter is an all world coach.
So tell me. WHO was better than Babchuk the last 20-25 games of the season last year?
It wasn't Butler thats for sure. Not gio, not bouwmeester. Scott Hannan?
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And you bring up Sutter when the Flames are currently a .500 hockey club clinging on to respectability. You should really only bring up coaching when the current Flames are at least approaching being on a 90 point pace.
Your assertion that a guy playing 5/6 sheltered minutes and putting up a PPG average over the time period you specified as an offensive dman that would have had him tied for 130th in the league was our best dman over the last 20-25 games is laughable. I am not even sure if you are serious, but I assume since you linked to a thread you started saying last year that he was great that you probably are.
To put it another way, the PPG average of Babchuk (supposedly an offensive dman) during the period you specified as being when he was the best dman the Flames had, was a whole .02 PPG higher than what Butler had over the entire season. That means that Babchuk was producing at a rate that would have provided the Flames an additional 1 or 2 points over 82 games than they would have had from Butler.
Babchuk is an awful, awful dman. With the exception of his first year in Calgary he has never provided anything positive on the ice.