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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
I’ll take the 8 100 point season, plus on pace for 100+ points in the lockout shortened year and in the 61 games he coaches his first season.
So 10/10 and the only year he didn’t was when he was fired with a 12-9-1 record after 22 games.
In Joel Quennevilles first 10 years he made it past the 2nd round once, Darryl Sutter twice. Neither won the cup until their 13th season coaching. Also has a better playoff winning percentage than those guys did in their first 10 years.
He has two issues come playoff time - 1-7 record in games 7s. Thats partially due to the fact that his goalies have a .862 save percentage in those 8 games.
Tough to win the round when somehow your goalie lets everything in every game 7 you play.
He’s a great coach no matter how you slice it.
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Regular season: great head coach.
Playoffs: mediocre to poor head coach. For all those great teams that he coached into 100 plus points, you would think that somewhere down the line, he would have some playoffs success. But he really hasn’t and it’s a stain on his resume. You can point to goaltending or game 7’s or whatever, but if he’s going to get credit for the successes of his teams, he’s gotta take the heat for the failures.
Would take him on the flames right now in a heartbeat over GG, but that’s not saying much.
Just can’t put him in great category until I see some solid playoff success.
Maybe my scale of “great” is too high.