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Originally Posted by puckluck2
Good goalies and Darryl Sutter. Coincidence?
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Nope the guy knows how to get a team to play strong defensive hockey.
As an NHL head coach when he coached the team for the full season his starting goalies have always been good and his team always had good GA/G.
92/93 Belfour: 0.906 SV% 2.59 GAA (1st in GA/G)
93/94 Belfour: 0.906 SV% 2.67 GAA (5th in GA/G)
94/95 Belfour: 0.906 SV% 2.28 GAA (1st in GA/G)
97/98 Vernon: 0.896 SV% 2.46 GAA (14th in GA/G)
98/99 Vernon: 0.911 SV% 2.27 GAA (5th in GA/G)
99/00 Shields: 0.911 SV% 2.56 GAA (13th in GA/G)
00/01 Nabakov: 0.915 SV% 2.19 GAA (3rd in GA/G)
01/02 Nabakov: 0.918 SV% 2.48 GAA (9th in GA/G)
03/04 Kipper: 0.933 SV% 1.70 GAA (3rd in GA/G)
05/06 Kipper: 0.923 SV% 2.07 GAA (1st in GA/G)
12/13 Quick: 0.902 SV% 2.45 GAA (7th in GA/G)
So his teams have been top 5 in GA/G in 7 of the 11 full seasons that he has coached, and top 10 in 9 of the 11 seasons. That is remarkable. He doesn't get enough credit for how good of a coach he is due to his GM record near the end in Calgary.
Wonder what would have been if he would have stayed head coach in Calgary and would have brought in somebody to help out in the GM role.