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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Mike Babcock should win coach of the year as he should basically every damn year.
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He got a team that spent to the cap and had Franzen out for most of the season to a 7-8 point lead on Calgary who has 18M in cap space and are missing their 2 best players from last year (Gio/Glencross)
Hartley still has them in the hunt.
The Jets have their best player quit on them, force a trade, miss significant time from their 5 best d-men and then lose 2 of their top 6 forwards, start the season with the worst regular goalie in the NHL and are 8M under the cap
Maurice has them still in the hunt.
I guess that Babcock gets the nod because of his history.
Over the last 5 years he has taken a cap team to the playoffs. (Note almost all teams that pay to the cap make the playoffs..... the Flames under Feaster were an exception.)
He has beaten the Coyotes in 09-10 in the first round in 7 games with a 15M cap advantage and then followed that up with another 1st round win against Anaheim in 11-12.
2 play series wins out of his last 7 playoff series with a cap team
Babcock was pretty good at not benching Lidstrom.