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Originally Posted by MarkGio
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.
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Holding this level of contempt for your fellow posters is a sure way to get you banned. Knock it off.
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Here's a list of coaches I can think of that completely changed the teams production rates, good or bad
Barry Trotz, Capitals — Improved Capitals production from 13th to 7th
Laviolette, Predators — Improved Predators production from 19th to 14th
Torts, Canucks — Reduced Canucks production from 19th to 28th
Vigneault, Rangers — Reduced NYR production from 15th to 19th
Cooper, Lightning — Reduced TB production from 3rd to 9th
Cameron, Senators — No change
Sutter, Kings — Improved LAK production from 29th to 10th
Ruff, Stars — Improved Stars production from 11th to 9th
I mean do people even think first?
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Some of us, yes. Clearly, you are not among those who do.
From all the examples you provided I see only two where teams' production changed substantially. Tortorella was a disaster in Vancouver, so this is understandable, and it was an error that was corrected the following season. What I do see in this list is a lot of positive change, and even in instances where most teams dropped in their offensive production, it was still in relatively close range to where they ranked the previous season. What I absolutely do not see—outside of the one anomalous example from Vancouver—is the sort of offensive draught that you are predicting for the Flames.
This actually reflects what I have been saying all along. Yes, I will be unsurprised to see the Flames scoring drop a bit with the introduction of a more stringent system, but IT WILL NOT have such a detrimental effect as to see them fall out of the top half of league scoring.
I maintain that you are being unnecessarily (predictably) pessimistic, and that scoring is among the less urgent issues that the Flames need to address this season. THEY WILL BE FINE. Even entering the season with only minor changes to the same group that finished 2015–16.