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Originally Posted by browna
One thing forgotten is that Fletcher had no salary cap, and unlimited funds for the most part from the Flames owners, and thus the Flames through the mid to late 80's were in the top 5 of salaries.
Absolutely robbed some teams, like St. Louis a couple times, but it was more for budgetary reasons on St. Louis than anything else.
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He also had great success with Atlanta as an expansion franchise where his pockets weren't so deep.
My second pick is Darryl with Treliving moving up. Sutter did some great things for this franchise and I look at his last moves as desperate to hang onto his job considering it was make the playoffs or else.
Coates was okay but you definitely knew we were a second class franchise. The others were mostly terrible.