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Originally Posted by Textcritic
But there is a big difference between taking a measured view of a new coach's tenure with a young team, and arbitrarily pulling out their best run of the season. Would you not agree?
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But your comment incorporates bias. Removing the initial stretch of the season and the pre all star stretch is "measured" and removing the winning streak on the back of a hot goalie is "arbitrary".
Cherry picking stretches of games just introduces bias into the equation.
Flames have started poorly before, not only when changing coaches. Other teams that changed coaches did not have the same bad start.
Other teams have hot goalies and win games. That's why you have a goalie.
Why not just go to the obvious conclusion? 50 games or so is not nearly enough time to fully evaluate this coach. There are good signs and bad signs.