I said in some other thread that I wanted a guy with both substantial head coaching experience at a lower level and NHL experience (preferably under a great head coach).
GG ticks the boxes except for having a great head coach as a mentor. On that point, it strikes me that there are some guys who seems to be pretty good head coaches who didn't have that (Mike Sullivan, arguably Joel Quenneville if you dislike Crawford). And there are guys who were assistants under great head coaches who didn't do that well (like Kitchen or Playfair).
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