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Originally Posted by Roof-Daddy
Blaming Gulutzan for the Anaheim series last year is nonsensical.
That was 100% on Elliot. He was terrible, but Gulutzan had no other decent options as Chad Johnson had been recently injured and when he came back was terrible.
His choices were go with terrible goalie #1 or terrible goalie #2.
Nobody in their right mind would have fired the coach one year after hiring when the team improved as much as it did in the standing, made the playoffs, and only got swept because the goalie was a tire fire.
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Not true. The team did crumble when Elliott let in a soft one which was their MO under Gulutzan.
If Elliott was half decent they surely would have won game 3. If the team was stronger willed they would have won more games in that series.
But I agree that you don’t fire a coach that improved a bottom 5 team by 17pts based on how those playoffs ended. The sweep did add to the narrative this team couldn’t get up for big games under Gulutzan