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Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden
Winning a cup is a lifelong accomplishment that puts you in a special group. Especially considering that only 6 active head coaches have won Stanley cups. and only 52 have won a cup over the last 101 seasons or what ever it is.
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I am not denying that he won a Cup. I am disagreeing with the statement that you can't deny his credentials. He has done absolutely nothing in the last seven seasons. He has no postseason series victories in those seasons. That's probably its own special group of coaches who were in the league during those seasons and didn't win one playoff series. Bob Hartley also won a Cup and he has managed to win a playoff series in the last seven years. Is he the same as Babcock?
The 2007-08 Red Wings has Datsyuk, Zetterberg, Lidstrom, Chelios, Holmstrom, Franzen, Maltby, Stuart, Draper, and Hudler. They were so good that Dominik Hasek was their back up goaltender. Babcock deserves credit for winning a Cup, but it shouldn't make him immune from criticism. The times Babcock has been the most successful were when he was coaching Team Canada. Obviously you don't get to be the coach of Canada without prior success, but Babcock was never able to elevate a team of low or mid tier level of players to success. In my opinion he was more a product of his environment, rather than the person who produced the winning environment.