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Originally Posted by Calgary4LIfe
Ryan Coke is right - Gulutzan did in fact simplify the system that the Flames were unable to execute properly last season. IIRC, the suggestion came from above as well.
I have no idea if the Flames played this season with the simplified version or the full version. Either way, hopefully that is the end of that.
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Yeah all this hearsay is just anecdotal. Nobody has any actual facts in hand, nobody has any idea about what was actually changed or simplified, nobody knows if or when they went back to anything, nobody knows anything really, it’s all just a bunch of guesses.
What we do know though is that Gulutzan is the coach of this team and if he did decide to make any form of changes despite the very rigid reputation he gets around here, then it worked as the team was very successful last season after a very horrid start.
They were also sitting pretty at 25-16-4 before the 5 day mandated break, good enough for 8th in the league and then injuries and player regression started to seep through. But like Treliving said, blaming the coach is easy and blame has to go around everywhere rather just scapegoating coaches all the time.