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Originally Posted by Textcritic
This is just simply wrong.
There has been an abundance of information provided in this thread which effectively shows various aspects of good performance and improvement which is demonstrably accurate and applicable. Your constant whining about the coaches in the face of this evidence that you utterly incapable to acknowledge strongly suggests that your opinion stems NOT from reason but is rather the product of an axe to grind.
The fact of the matter is that every team in the NHL will win games they have no business winning (i.e. the Flames win in LA), and will lose games that they should have won (i.e. the Flames loss to Minnesota). The underlying numbers are crucial to showing what teams are doing well and where they need to improve, and they also provide reams of data for understanding individual game results beyond the sum of goals scored. Simple wins/losses in tiny segments of a full season are not good indicators of what the coach or players are doing well or poorly, because there is so much noise and randomness in the space of a 60 minute game—You are right: hockey games do not take place in a vacuum. But you are completely wrong in your application of that analogy, because if they did, then we could simply look at the score after each night without seeing what transpired on the ice and KNOW everything about what happened.
But of course, because you cannot tolerate the possibility that Glen Gulutzan might be a quality NHL coach, you will continue to relish in team losses and smugly deflect counter opinions with your fingers planted firmly your ears. (..."Your [sic.] right mate, I’ll get the jack Adams ready.)
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Dude, the your entire post is would've, could've been. All conjecture.
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Originally Posted by Textcritic
No one ever suggested that it was "unfair" to draw comparisons to last year, only that all comparisons need to weigh various factors individually.
People keep providing tangible evidence of improvement that is continually ignored...
*EDIT* I will add to this a win by the Flames at the Honda Center—a place they have not won a game in more than a decade, and a win at the Saddledome over the Washington Capitals. This last one has not received the attention it deserves: The Capitals came into Calgary with a three-year winning streak in Calgary, in which they have outscored the Flames 12–4, and lost only once at the Saddledome since 2008. Sunday's win was a big deal.
Whether you see it or not probably indicates something of your own biases and blindspots.
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The most tangible evidence is how the season went, wins/losses, how deep into the playoffs the team made it.
Advanced stats are a tool to look for how to improve a team, where a team is excelling and where another maybe lacking - advanced stats don't win games.
The horse is dead, lets both stop beating the #### out of it?
I can't accept GG is a good coach and you can't accept he's a bad coach.
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Originally Posted by VilleN
So when Mike Babcock left Detroit and started coaching the Leafs did he become a worse coach? The wins/losses certainly reflect that so far.
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Babcock changed teams entirely; the Flames roster improved. You are comparing apples to oranges my friend.