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Old 08-22-2020, 10:19 AM   #57
JohnnyB
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Originally Posted by Itse View Post
I really don't get where people get this idea. The Flames are probably among the most patient teams in the league with their coaches. Despite generally having bad to terrible performance as a team, they almost never fire a coach mid-season, and everyone gets 2-3 seasons even if they've shown nothing special and bring no success.

There hasn't been a single-season coach in this team in over a decade, last one was Jim Playfair back in 2006-07.

I have also literally never heard anyone outside this board even discuss the idea that our roster is somehow coach killers. Again in these playoffs it was very clear that the team plays exactly the way the coach wants, whether it works
Agreed.

Hartley got replaced because he wasn't the new GM's guy. Gulutzan got replaced because he was terrible. Peterson basically forced the Flames to fire him because of his past.

That's only one firing based on the team's performance under the coach, and he was a truly awful coach that shouldn't have been hired in the first place.
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