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Originally Posted by SportsJunky
This sounds just like the complaints on here about Gulutzan. I'm not defending Ward but at some point this core needs to be dealt with. At some point I'd think one of the key guys needs to be moved out. Monahan maybe. Gaudreau maybe. Bennett needs to go for sure imo.
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There are 6 players left on this roster from when Gulutzan coached here.
Gio, Tkachuk, Monahan, Gaudreau, Backlund, Bennett.
The entire d-core, half of the forwards, and both goalies are new since GG was coach.
Sure maybe moving one of Gio, Monahan, or Gaudreau becomes the medicine for this team and fixes the so called “culture” problems.
But to me it’s more likely that both Ward and Gulutzan are just bad head coaches that were never anything more than career assistant coaches.
The last 6 Flames coaches (soon to be 7 with Ward) never got an NHL head coaching job after leaving Calgary. This is a league where head coaches are consistently recycled, so IMO that’s very telling about the quality of coaches the Flames have hired since Darryl Sutter moved to be GM only.