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Originally Posted by dino7c
The Flames have the best winning % in the entire league since he took over
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There's a difference between playing good hockey and getting great results and playing poor hockey and still somehow getting great results.
If we just focus solely on the record, you lose sight of the big picture. It's like when average players put up amazing statistics one year but everyone knows it was a statistical anomaly and he falls back in line with what his metrics actually say his value is worth is the following season.
You don't put your complete faith in a coach who has his team playing legitimately poor hockey just because his record looks good. Otherwise, you make the mistake that a lot of fans made the year the Flames made the 2nd round under Hartley. The majority of the hockey community knew that was pure luck and expected a massive regression the following season because we way outperformed our metrics but some people thought just because we made the 2nd round that we were due for even a better result the following year.
You can even see it happening already... we started out with 7 straight wins under Ward despite poor play but are now 2-4-1 in our last 7 because our poor play continued and it's already catching up to us