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Originally Posted by Classic_Sniper
You’re comment that a different coach could make our current middling team into a “top 3rd of the league” team was what I was responding to.
At the end of the day organizations will outbid other organizations for anything that’ll give them a perceived edge. But it doesn’t mean it correlates with instant success. Take Troy Brouwer for example, we paid him $18 million over 4 years because we thought he’d make a big time impact for our team as his prior history would’ve indicated. But he’s turned out to be a dud. Paying a guy big money doesn’t guarantee anything whether it’s players, coaches or whatever.
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Eh, that's a pretty significant goalpost move there.
Yeah, paying a coach a lot of money doesn't make them great, but that has nothing to do with the fact that coaches can make a really significant impact on a team, good or bad. Claiming otherwise is IMO quite ridiculous.
I mean, when you look at the coaches in the finals, it's quite often the same guys. Laviolette has been there with 3 teams, Sutter with 2 teams, Babcock with 2 teams, Vigneault with 2 teams, DeBoer with 2 teams. In the last decade, if there was a new head coach in the finals, they were probably coaching Crosby
