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Originally Posted by 868904
GG was highly sought after when Dallas first hired him. He had put together some good regular seasons in the ECHL but never won a championship. He took his ECHL team to at least the 3rd round in 4 consecutive seasons with one year losing in the final. That kind of "success" made him a hot commodity but I think many overlooked the fact that despite having good teams all those years, he never actually won the championship.
His prospect status landed him the gig as the AHL head coach of the Dallas Stars farm team. Then riding on the back of a Jamie Benn MVP type playoff "guided" the Stars' farm team to the final of the AHL but failed to win. Lost in round 1 the next year and then was promoted to Dallas Stars head coach after that and preceded to miss the playoffs in his two years there.
I remember hearing about Gulutzan back when the Stars hired him as head coach and he was highly regarded as a coaching prospect back then. The shine came off after two disappointing seasons in Dallas and he hoped back on the horse as an assistant coach with the Canucks for 3 seasons, 2 of which were utter disasters.
GG had been trending downwards as a coaching prospect for 5 straight seasons when Treliving hired him so it was a weird hire. Typically, you hire an assistant coach from a winning team or organization, not a sad sack tire fire like the Canucks were. GG's work in Vancouver and Dallas should not have warranted a head coaching position. He needed to either have some success in the NHL as an assistant coach or go back to having some success in the AHL as a head coach before he found another head coaching job in the NHL.
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Sullivan was also an assistant on the Canucks. Just sayin'.