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Originally Posted by Textcritic
I'm very wary of looking at a single season's special teams performance for one team, and drawing sweeping conclusions about what specifically THE problem was. It's complex. It is not just the coach or just the players. If you look carefully through individual teams' special teams performances from one year to the next you will commonly see some dramatic shifts in their ranking from top-to-bottom, from one season to the next.
The point here being that while I do not think the Flames' coaches should be completely absolved of the special teams performance from this year, I am also quite convinced that there were a lot of factors, and that even with the same coaching staff and personnel in place next season, the team would be better.
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Well yeah the special teams could improve without making any changes whatsoever. Statistically speaking they were awful so in fact its very likely. But if one season is too small a small sample size from which to draw conclusions, then obviously six weeks is even more so.
Without a doubt there were many factors beyond Gelinas and I have no idea how much he contributed to the problem. Hopefully management is doing more than relying on reversion to the mean for improvement.