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Originally Posted by old-fart
I don't think it is a particularly fair comparison. Sutter took a garbage team with very few pieces that had missed the playoffs for 7 straight years and led them to a single goal away from the Stanley Cup and years of respectability, before falling back into mediocrity.
Gillis took over a pretty stacked team, didn't do much, got a lot of credit for work done long before he got there, then stood by and watched as it sank into oblivion.
edit: what ComixZone said.
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the Vancouver Canucks the year before Gillis was hired
21st in the NHL in points
22nd in the NHL in scoring
They were still relying on Naslund, Morrison, Ohlund, Cooke, Pyatt as top 6 forwards or top 4 d
the 3rd and 4th line included the names Ritchie, Isbister, Cowan who were all out of the league after they left Vancouver
that Canucks team has a good core in place of the Sedins/Kesler/Edler/Luongo but the team around it was garbage