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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Nice moving of the goal posts seeing you brought up Bednar which is a terrible example as he was thrown into a terrible situation a few summers ago when Roy quit in the middle of August. Even at that he's made solid improvements in year two as they have a better record than the Flames. Under Gulutzan the Flames have regressed in season two despite having a better roster to work with than year one. There's no doubt he's done a better job this season in Denver than Gulutzan has done in Calgary.
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No, the example I provided was to prove that firing a coach doesn’t always lead to improvements, which it didn’t. There’s tons of other examples out there if that one isn’t to your liking. Even if you want to disregard the Colorado’s collapse, they’re still a middling team like us. We were a rebuilding team who is now a middling team as well.
We were never a contender despite everyone’s over the top, sky high expectations. The jump from being a consistently good team to being a legitimate contender is probably the biggest leap of all. You don’t go from out of the playoffs to a wild card team then straight to a Stanley Cup contender in just a short coupe of years.