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Originally Posted by MisterJoji
I think the whole adjustment time needed is BS. If you're a quality coach preseason should be plenty of time to teach and implement a system. Look at some of the leagues best coaches and their first 16 games.
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I would be much more interested to see how each of these coaches performed in their inaugural seasons in the NHL, and balanced against the rosters they were coaching. I.e. in his first 16 games at the NHL level Mike Babcock won 5 with a young Anaheim Ducks roster; Hitchcock won only 6 games of his first 24 in the NHL as a mid-season replacement; Dave Tippett won 6 of his first 16; Lindy Ruff won 5 of his first 16, and so forth.
While Gulutzen is on his second go-around, he is still a really young coach comparatively speaking, and with a very young roster. I suspect that as a rule younger coaches with younger players struggle more than older, established coaches.
Gulutzen may turn out to be nothing more than a good NHL assistant when it is all said and done, but I do not believe that your list proves anything to that end.