A lot of people like to say that GG is our Dallas Eakins... What I don't understand about that comment is that Dallas Eakins wasn't a bad coach for Edmonton... relatively speaking. He wasn't really any worse (looking at their record) than most of the coaches they've had in the past decade aside from T Mac (who has a better record because he was hired when McDavid was drafted)... They've just had pathetic teams and coaching changes didn't seem to matter... just curious as to why Eakins gets singled out... My opinion is that it's because he was young and unproven, like GG is... it's easy to blame a coach when there is no proven track record... I'm not making a comment about either coach really, thought it was interesting though.
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