It is pretty dumb to think a coach won't have an effect on offense. Brent Sutter literally switched styles one year to the next and took a nearly identical roster to a top offensive, poor defensive team to the exact opposite the next year.
Players do what their told. The puck is played how their told to play it. If people don't think that doesn't have an effect on offense, then maybe they need to stop watching what's obviously too complicated of a game for their tiny brains. Here's a list of coaches I can think of that completely changed the teams production rates, good or bad
Barry Trotz, Capitals
Laviolette, Predators
Torts, Canucks
Vigneault, Rangers
Cooper, Lightning
Cameron, Senators
Sutter, Kings
Ruff, Stars
I mean do people even think first?
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