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Originally Posted by keenan87
What is funny is the last few times, they have gotten a coach who has won (Hartley and Keenan) - they actually did well.
Keenan wasn't great but I remember that one year when the team had a ton of potential but ran into salary cap issues due to injuries.
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The summer of 2009 was the biggest, most damaging overreaction to a season getting ruined by injuries that I've seen. Sutter followed it up with his horrid Phaneuf trade in early 2010.
That 2008/2009 team was great, and playing pretty well, and got entirely destroyed by injuries in the last 1/4 of the season and leading into the playoffs.
Really, from Summer 2009 to trade deadline 2010, Sutter undid years of good work out of what must have been pure frustration.