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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
It's pretty hard to fluke into the 3rd best winning percentage all-time by an NHL head coach. For sure the playoff success is lacking but he's still one of the best coaches in the league. Let's not pretend the Wild are actual Stanley Cup contenders on paper but as usual he gets 100 points annually from his teams.
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And has done it different ways.
His Ducks, Wild, and Capitals team have all played different styles that fit their teams roster but have all been consistently good (Over a full 82 game season his teams have never had under 100 pts - 8 for 8. The Flames have had over 100 points only 4 times in team history.)
Since Boudreau has been an NHL coach these are the coaches that have won a Stanley Cup: Babcock, Bylsma, Quenneville, Sutter, Sullivan, Julien.
Winning the Stanley Cup is hard to do - I'll take the guy who pretty much guarantees you are going to have a shot in the playoffs every year any day of the week. It's not like Boudreau leaves and then some other coach comes in and does better than he did, teams usually regress after he leaves and get instantly better when he's hired.
Honestly if fans want a proven Stanley Cup winning coach for this roster there is really only one choice: Sutter (Bylsma was terrible in Buffalo, and it looks like he held Pittsburgh back at times).