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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher

Coaching is about tactics, strategy and philosophy. But it’s also about psychology, motivation, personalities. Unless you’re talking to the coach, talking to former players, you aren’t getting the information needed on the latter areas.

There just isn’t the data available to fans for us to even begin to have a mildly informed discussion on the merits of coaches. We as fans are very much in the dark.

To be frank our analysis of coaches is uninformed drivel worth nothing at all. Evaluating coaching properly, evaluating how players are in the dressing room, these just aren’t things a normal fan is informed about.

100% agreed.