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Originally Posted by rollie619
In fact he has made the finals 3 times in his last 5 years as a coach. The man literally makes the cup finals every other year!
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and the first 2 times:
1) he took the Flames to the cup winning 3 series against teams that had basically twice the talent (salary).
2) He won the cup with a team that wasn't going to make the playoffs when they brought him in with the Kings 15-14-3.
He might be the best coach ever. Definitely this decade... Only one close is Babcock and he has been pretty ordinary (compared to Sutter) without Lidstrom. Babcock has never taken an underdog team further than they were charted to go.
If only the Flames had a strong GM and had kept him as coach..... or if he had gone back coaching if the Devil's would have not let Brent out of his contract.