LOL at everyone saying it's only 1 loss after a nice stretch of wins. This is about the big picture. He continues to struggle with player utilization, in game adjustments, and line matching but more importantly let's focus on his NHL body of work in a fact based manner.
FACT - good coaches get their teams to overachieve.
FACT - bad coaches have their teams underachieve.
FACT - GG2.0's Dallas Stars team underachieved in 2011-12 and missed the playoffs with 89 points.
FACT - GG2.0's Dallas Stars team underachieved in 2012-13 and missed the playoffs with 48 points in 48 games.
FACT - GG2.0's Calgary Flames team underachieved in 2016-17, making the playoffs as a wild card team and winning a grand total of 0 playoff games.
FACT - thru 18 games this season, GG2.0's Calgary Flames team is 10-8, with a -5 goal differential, on pace for 91 points despite receiving very good goaltending in the vast majority of the 18 games and having a top 10 talent team on paper (arguably top 5 considering the goaltending provided so far). You can argue just how good you think the Flames should be but there is no question they should be better than a 91 point team with a negative goal differential and thus GG2.0 has his team undeniably underachieving again!
Therefore there is an undeniable 234 game sample size of GG2.0 being a poor NHL coach. The sample size is large enough to no longer make this an OPINION but rather a FACT. He may be better than the original GG that was Greg Gilbert, but he sure as heck ain't good.
Anyone who continues to ignore this FACT, whether it be the GM of the team, or the owner of this site, or whoever else, quite frankly is living on a hope and prayer instead of reality.
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