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Originally Posted by GioforPM
That's not true. I'm pretty confident he wanted to win. Does he believe possession stats disclose winning practices? Sure.
GG coached a system that the majority of the coaches in this league, including the highly thought of ones like Babcock and Cooper, employ. IMO his downfall was (a) he didn't have quite the personnel to execute it properly; (b) he lacked the ability to motivate the men to do it properly; (c) he failed to tinker with the plan enough when it wasn't working mid game.
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Of course it's true. Gulutzan coached to grab high Corsi. Nobody has said he didn't want to win. Of course he did. But his systems and style impeded success none the less. In part because he is the kind of coach who thinks that a stat designed to measure workload for a goaltender was the unquestioned path to success. And he was wrong.
As for reasons why he's done here, you can add (d) his system was slow as hell and boring as heck. It lulled everybody except the opposition defence into boredom. Actually, I'm sure they were pretty bored too, given how predictable we were. Primarily because of point (c).