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Originally Posted by dissentowner
So glad Sutter went, his mismanagement of lines and Matt Stajan was just plain terrible.
He kind of reminds me of Greg Gilbert, well maybe not that bad but you get the idea.
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Kind of funny but I think GG is a great comparison. I think what Brent was trying to do was valid (i.e. the type of team Keenan was coaching would never get anywhere in the playoffs) and I agree that this team needed better attention to detail. But what they both sucked at was how to get on the same page as their players, especially their star players. I guess a lot of people don't recall, but the year Keenan was canned, the garbage day interviews you heard from Regehr and Sarich were a very different tune then what you heard from Iginla - players clearly weren't on the same page. Brent was brought in to try and get everyone on the same page and clean up the mess Keenan left behind, but his way of doing it made things worse - similar to Gilbert, not able to bridge that gap.