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Originally Posted by EddyBeers
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.
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a .500 with our franchise player down for 13 of the 20 games. Where is Brent coaching right now? oh yeah the Oilers didn't even want him.
IF you even watched Flames games last year you might have noticed that Butler was getting over 21 minutes of ice time a game with 2nd unit powerplay time in the first part of the season. There were games were Babchuk didn't hit the ice for the PP. What a terrible coach.