To develop on C4L's "rant" above, the only success this team has had in 35+ years was the only time in the last 35+ years that it had a top-end coach ***. To a medium or large extent, every team seems to take on the personality of its coach. That can be mitigated to some extent, if there is an exceptionally strong personality in the room (e.g. Messier or Hextall, say, though ironically both of them were under Keenan, so I wonder how much of that was Keenan bringing it out in them???). GG seems to be a cerebral guy, but to me he seems to have all the personality of a paper towel, and so we see a team take on that personality too, showing up some days, and not others. And this has been the story of the franchise for almost 4 decades now, going through the motions re-(pro-)gressing to mediocrity, except for when Darryl Sutter was the coach ***. Having been through this from the beginning, I am disheartened by our magical ability to always hire the wrong guy. We missed on Boudreau (for reasons I am not privvy to), we are going to miss on Julien, we never had a shot at Babcock... honestly, and this is despair talking, I think we have pray LAK fire Sutter, and he is willing to give this another go-round... Of course, we could get lucky, and find some diamond in the rough. I am so hopeless, I would be willing to have a go with Tortorella or even welcome Keenan back.
*** with honourable mention to the extended stretch under Keenan when they were the best team in the NHL until injuries/cap got them, and the "immaculate season" under Hartley.