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Originally Posted by 868904
This is what got Tre in trouble in the first place. When you are doing your due dilligence and background checks on a hire, it's not the positive feedback you get that you should be focusing on, it's the negative feedback. The source also matters a great deal. Asking his friends what they think of him is pointless.
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Yeah, I am not in a position to comment on what Treliving did or did not do, nor what he should have or not done when hiring his first NHL head coach. But more to the point, neither are you. It's pretty presumptuous to posit that Treliving made this hire inside of an echo chamber.
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What should matter most is wins. GG has never won anything as a coach at any professional level. In 4 seasons as a head coach in the NHL, his teams have missed the playoffs 75% of the time. In 3 seasons as an assistant coach in the NHL, his teams have missed the playoffs 66% of the time. As a coach in the NHL, his teams have missed the playoffs 70% of the time.
Those are the facts.
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Sure, but they are also what qualify as half-truths:
· 2006–07 ECHL Pacific Division Championship, Brabham Cup
· 2007–08 ECHL Pacific Division championship
· 2008 John Brophy Trophy, ECHL best coach
Gulutzan does not have a good track record as a NHL coach, but it is disingenuous to pretend that he did not get to this level on the basis of some impressive accomplishments as a professional hockey coach.