Lets be honest in that if you scan the history of the Flames head coaches it boils down to Bob Johnson, Darryl Sutter, Terry Crisp (he won a cup after all), and a whole lot of unremarkable and junk coaches. The bar is set extremely low here and so far Gulutzan looks like just another head coach that's probably going to fall into the latter category. He was brought in after all to tighten up things after Hartley who ran a pretty loose ship defensively. The issue is that this team still makes just as many blunders and defensive mistakes as it did under Hartley. Now I fully believe the players need to accept responsibility for their play but it's also not unreasonable to expect a new head coach to correct issues from his predecessor as for instance how Stevens has brought some offensive creativity to jump start the Kings. Right now I'm not exactly sure what type of team this is. They don't score a lot of goals and they still are a mess defensively so you can argue in some ways the team has taken a bit of a step back because they scored a lot of goals under Hartley. I hate revisiting this thread game to game because it's a long schedule but I'm still waiting for some sort of indication that things are trending in the right direction and I'm just not seeing that. It's really frustrating when you see management go all in on a team and the results are mediocrity because if they don't make any noise this season there's no upcoming draft to salvage anything from the season seeing the picks have mostly been traded.
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