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Originally Posted by Textcritic
Mmmmmm. No. That's not how it works.
I agree that Hufnagel is a fantastic manager and team builder. However, any comparison between managing a CFL team and a NHL team is still laughably off point. In other words, any lessons to be gleaned from Hufnagel's team philosophy and roster construction are inapplicable at the NHL level.
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That's exactly how it works. 8 out of 14 teams made the NHL playoffs in the West. I certainly getting wanting to defend the Flames efforts, but relative to your competition it should be more likely to make it than not. Saying it's easy is of course an expression of speech to reflect this mathematical reality. Beating your competition is not easy, yet some teams (the majority) are able to figure it out every year.
And by the same token, no one is saying Hufnagel should run an NHL team. But why would his philosophy in running a professional sports organization be laughably inapplicable? Sounds kind of arrogant actually.