the risk for an NCAA coach is whether there is an easy transition.
unlike NCAA football, where college coaches make the jump seemingly every year or two, this simply does not happen in hockey.
there was a 33 year gap between Bob Johnson and Hakstol getting the Philly job... the NCAA has hardly been the "cradle of coaches" for the NHL.
now one can argue that's becasue the NHL are dinosaurs and that the NCAA is an untapped resource for coaches... but do you really want the Flames to be the organization that rolls the dice on that?
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