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Originally Posted by dammage79
Summed up my feelings on the subject.
It is funny. The greatest success the flames have had in recent years was in a "unsustainable" system. But it doesn't fit with the advanced stats community to accept that success in this sport is not driven by numbers. It's driven by will and heart. You can have the perfect system but if your players play like robots like they did in gullys system, they won't go far...
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Gulutzan was clearly not a capable coach, but again, Hartley's Flames were not all "heart n' soul" either. The same team that experienced the Flames's greatest recent success is also the same team that drafted #4 overall the following year.