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Originally Posted by GirlySports
On its own it's not bad but add it to the other effortless home games it looks worse.
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To me the bad part was that they were already in big trouble defensively in Philly and only won because Philly took a string of stupid penalties.
IMO a competent coach should have realized they need to do something different in the next game. They changed nothing and very predictably lost. Those two games are a major reason why I really can't see why Gulutzan could be called a "great hockey mind". I don't think he has even an average hockey mind in any way I would use the term.
He doesn't seem like a guy that can just look at a game and understand what's happening. This I think is further backed by the fact that he keeps making claims that the team played fine in situations where they clearly haven't. I get the feeling that Gulutzan really does coach mostly with numbers, and probably doesn't understand why the team is not doing as good as his numbers would suggest.
I also think he's a poor judge of hockey talent, as implied by the failure of "his guys" that have been brought in.
(Btw I also strongly suspect Treliving also isn't very good at simply eyeballing hockey talent or hockey games, at least relative to the context of hockey professionals. However I don't think it matters as much, as I think it's a much smaller part of a GM's job. A GM should rely on his scouts anyway.)