Badger Bob - there simply wasn't a better strategist in the history of the Flames' coaching staff.
Sutter will be next for me - one might argue that he had an Iginla in his prime, and a God-like Kipper, but he forced that team to play his crazy work-ethic style all the way to the finals.
Hartley comes a close third - he is much like Sutter in how he gets his players to compete in every shift.
The rest will be a bit more difficult to gauge. I myself used to hate Brian Sutter. I do, however, think that he was the wrong type of hire for the existing team when he first came on board, but when he was canned I felt it was a 'Sutter team', and that team generally worked hard.
Macneil was so underrated and an afterthought, but I do think he did an excellent job.
King - possibly the most brilliant mind in hockey - probably in the realm of Scotty Bowman, Badger Bob Johnson and Canada's enemy #1 - Tikonov - but he simply couldn't get that team to work as hard as they could have. Tactically, he was awesome - but he just couldn't get them to buy-in like I think a coach should have.
Terry Crisp will be the hardest to rank. He won a cup. The only cup in Flames' history. How can we not rank him as the best? How did he get canned so quickly? I just think perhaps he was a bit too sour. I just don't know where I will end up ranking him. Probably the biggest enigma to me.
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