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Originally Posted by New Era
Why bring up teams that are completely stacked and have Stanley Cups? How about comparing apples to apples? Unless you are suggesting the Flames have the same level of talent of the teams you are referencing? I don't want to build a straw man, because you seem to be very capable of doing that yourself Mr. Bolger, just want to know why you're selecting the teams you are? Maybe a more fair comparison would be the team up the highway from Calgary? How about looking at their track record under middling to no-name coaches and the turnaround they made with a proven experienced coach??
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LOL - they’ve hired Ken Hitchcock and Kevin McClelland before.
All I said was there ain’t one road to a good coach. If you want examples of not “stacked teams” how about the Flames hiring Bob Johnson in 1982. And Tampa wasn’t a stacked team when Cooper was hired - they were fresh out of missing the POs. They had a young Stamkos and a younger Hedman, and a really old MSL. They hired Cooper, Yzerman built a good team, and they grew together.
Boston’s “stacked team” missed the POs 2 years running before Sullivan took over, under an experienced cup winning guy I’m betting a lot of posters are going to be asking to be hired here.