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Originally Posted by Da_Chief
For me there is 3 tiers
Top Coaches - Coaches other teams would love to get
D. Sutter, Quenneville, Julien, Trotz, Babcock, Tippett, Peters, Ruff, Cooper, Vigneault, Hitchcock, Laviolette, Boudreau are all good coaches.
Average Tier - They would be fired, no one will miss a beat but they will re-surface in a ####ty job again
Bylsma, Hartley, Roy, McLellan, Gallant, Maurice, Desjardins, DeBoer, Cameron, Capuano, Therrien, Tortorella
New Comers
Blashill, Hynes, Sullivan, Hakstol, Torchetti
Blashill, Hynes and Sullivan look really good so far.
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The bolded selections give me a headache. What are your qualifications for a good and bad coach? Seems like you're all over the map here. No way is Gallant an average coach. He's probably the single biggest reason the Panthers have turned things around over the last couple of seasons. They were abysmal before he arrived.
That's not even going into the Hartley discussion, but I still believe he's one of the
better coaches in the league, although not in the highest tier.
For me, it's a list of a few guys that are exceptional no matter where they go:
Quenneville, Trotz, Sutter, Babcock (recent results for the Leafs notwithstanding)
Then there's the main group of coaches. Most of them are capable of winning given a decent lineup without holes. That's pretty much every head coach in the league. If they get fired and hired somewhere else, they usually have success for a decent amount of time relative to the talent on their teams.
Then the bottom of the list full of guys that are the main culprit for the lack of success with the team, and you see it happen in more than one place:
Tortorella, Maurice, Therrien, De Boer (despite the Sharks success this year, he has a track record of driving teams into the ground: Devils, Panthers).
Won't comment on the coaches in their first year or two as a head coach in the NHL.