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Originally Posted by Infinit47
If your beliefs are true then you know more than the people running lots of NHL teams. There is an incentive by owners to cheap out on coaches as they can make more money. What is the incentive to pay super expensive coaches? Really need a business loss to offset a sweet investment?
Coaching matters. I don't think it's going to turn a bottom team into a top team, but I sure thing it could take a middle of the pack team and move them up to the top 3rd of the league, which is what I think the Flames can be. I think the Flames can be a top 10 team, just not with GG. I think he doesn't adapt his system to the strengths of his team, and I think he is too stubborn. To admit his mistakes.
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If you have the money like some teams do (i.e. Leafs, Rangers, etc) then why not out spend other teams to get the additional experience or brain trust. But that doesn’t mean Mike Babcock or whoever is 5 X better than someone else. It’s a copy cat league and when something works, everyone just steals or mimics what’s successful.
There’s no patent on ideas. How many teams do a 1-3-1 powerplay? Virtually every team has their own variation now. That’s why powerplay numbers have sky rocketed in recent times. Half the teams in the league are at 20%+ now when only a handful of elite teams were hitting those marks previously.
I’m not sure where the sudden outrageous expectations came from, but I didn’t view this team as Stanley Cup contender this season. I thought we could once again contend for a wild card playoff spot or maybe 3rd in the division, but no way did I set my expectations on one of the best teams in the league.
That seems to be the major problem here, sky high expectations. All I hear is this team is severely underachieving, we’re not hitting our potential, so it must be the coach and we must fire him. But not log ago we were rebuilding, we nabbed Tkachuk 1.5 years ago as the 26th placed team in the league. Now we’re a Cup contender?
It’s a process to become an elite team and we’re still in the middle of that process. We still have a lot young players who are still learning, we still have holes on this roster and we still have bad contracts to finish up before we can start moving towards elite status IMO.