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Originally Posted by Classic_Sniper
As for your last point, I completely disagree. All I've been doing in this thread is answer or respond to questions and remarks and today I'll flip the table here:
If the majority of people here feel like the coach is 100% to blame or 90% or whatever percentage. How do you guys explain Jared Bednar's 48 point Colorado team of 16-17 vs his current 95 point pace team? Or how about Boucher's 98 point Senator team that was 1 win away from the Cup Finals last year to his current 69 point pace team? How are these records so different despite having virtually the same roster and coaching staff?
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I can't speak to Colorado, but my take on Ottawa:
- They weren't actually that good last season - They finished 6th in the East, but their GF/GA was -2, 11th in the East. They got the right bounces / performances at the right time in the regular season to cover their marginal performance, and caught fire in the playoffs;
- Karlsson came back down to earth from God Mode to generally good;
- Anderson came down from great to sub par - his SV% went from .926 to .900, which was aided by the above and the following;
- They lost Methot, a 19+ min defenseman often pairing with Karlsson (IIRC) and didn't really replace him.
The result is a team scoring on roughly the same pace, but letting in way, way more goals, which decimated an already not great team.