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Originally Posted by Cali Panthers Fan
^Agreed. Either show that you're an excellent head coach at your current level for a long enough period of time to prove it's not a fluke, OR work your way up to the NHL and get some experience there as an assistant.
I'm still not sure about Gulutzan, and he HAS previous experience as both a head coach and assistant coach at the NHL level, plus significant time spent in the minors. This hire by the Avs is curious to me.
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I think you're underselling him a bit. He has 14 years of coaching experience and whenever he's been a head coach, he's succeeded and continued to work his way up the ranks. Seems like a natural progression from coaching one of the top AHL teams to getting a chance in the NHL. Probably not the most heralded candidate out there but it's not like they just hired a recent Avs alumni with no coaching experience.