[Erick Estrada]

Yeah my feeling is that he appears to me to be a top shelf assistant coach that lacks the authoritarian approach that guys like Babcock, Quenneville, D. Sutter, Tortorella, etc have in spades. As Enoch Root stated there is no identity as they look like a team just going on the ice to do their job rather than a team on a mission to accomplish a goal. Gulutzan isn't unique to that as many solid assistants simply lack the quality to be able to persuade a group of well paid men to buy-in to the team concept he's trying to build. Jim Playfair comes to mind as a coach the players loved as an assistant but simply couldn't buy into him as the authoritative figure in the dressing room. Being intelligent and knowing your X's & O's makes for a great assistant but the head coach position requires more leadership intangibles and just being a really good guy like Gulutzan isn't enough.