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Originally Posted by Aarongavey
The only similarity is that neither of them should be NHL coaches.
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True. Let's bring in a proven coach like Mike Keenan he will turn it around from Playfair!
Nevermind....How about Brent Sutter - he is highly regarded, that team will turn around and come back to contender status for sure!
90% of the time coaching always gets too much of the credit when things go well, and too much of the blame when things go poorly.
Really there are a handful of coaches that actually impact the game year to year and have a history of playoff success. (Babcock, Quenneville, Laviolette, add Mike Sullivan to that now).
Then you have a group that looks good in the regular season but no cup wins yet (Boudreau, Cooper, Vigneault).
And others with past success that may or may not still "have it" (Sutter, Hitchcock, Julien).
Outside of that true elite tier of 3-4 guys on the low end, and 10 guys on the top end, coaching is mostly interchangable IMO.
If you can get one of those 10 guys to be your coach then you should fire GG tomorrow, if you can't then Treliving should probably be more cautious about making a change. Even somebody like Gerard Gallant has an identical .548 points percentage to what Gulutzan has in his career.