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This is not right. I think Bingo, myself and others have been arguing that the problem with Gulutzan was not necessarily the system he employed, but rather more in terms of execution. There were clearly problems with how he coached the team, but there were also things that I still believe worked, and I think that is what was behind Bingo's own fastidious analyses. If anyone was guilty of "fit[ting] the data to their conclusion ," I think this charge fits best those who would make sweeping assertions about the numbers without actually addressing what they were indicating. With considerable frequency I recall seeing retorts about how "Gulutzan plays for corsi," or that the Flames were a "perimeter team" that took high volumes of low percentage shots from outside, and that simply did not align with the numbers regularly produced by Bingo's sources.
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Well, we obviously disagree on the system as well, because Gulutzan's system was slow, boring, and allowed the opposition enough time to take a nap before we gained the zone.
And yes, IMNSHO, he tried to play for Corsi. And much of what you and Bingo would attempt to pass off as LOFT or bad luck in terms of why our shots missed the net so much, regardless of where on the ice they were taken from, it was because we were usually playing against a set defence that gave us nothing but low visibility shots.
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These are entirely separate issues from what the "deep dive" was dealing with. I agree that these were all serious problems which showed that Gulutzan was not a good coach, but these are separate from the fact that the Flames were pretty consistently a high possession team which generated a lot of high-danger scoring chances.
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You're moving the goalposts. The argument, then and now, was that Gulutzan was an awful coach and needed to be fired. The "deep dive", then and now, is an attempt to reframe the argument away from things that everybody could see on the ice but is not visible on a spreadsheet.
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What was "disproven," exactly? What is it you think Bingo was attempting to argue in the first place?
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Bingo was attempting to argue that Gulutzan was a good coach. Despite the fact that we were floundering week after week under him and his plodding, rigid style.