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Originally Posted by GioforPM
LOL - that’s what you are taking from those stats? That Brent Sutter was defensive or something?
If you look at the Flames’ record, notwithstanding all those different coaches, the results varied by 8 points, aside from the first year after the lockout under Darryl. The team never cracked 100 under any of those coaches. Mike Keenan and Brent Sutter both coached to 94 points. Goals against didn’t vary much and Brent Sutter had a season of goals for about as high as under Keenan and Playfair, bracketed by two lower ones.
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Glad you are finding whatever funny. Different players get different results because of how the team is coached.
You mention Brent. Yes, he had a year where the team was more offensive. First year he believed that reeling everything in was the way to succeed. Second year, he reflected that perhaps he focused too much on defense and opened things up. Third year, he realized that didn’t work did him so he went back to his junior / NJ style and got frustrated and beat up a garbage can
Nobody out of these coaches got it perfect, but they all sure put their stamp in the team. And had varying degrees of success
This roster has the talent to be a top team in the league. We know because we have seen it. Then they changed the way they play. Not because they tuned out the coach, because they were trying to implement the game plan
As for being a top team? Should be, based on the lineup. Not happening under this coach
I’ll defer to Versteeg. He knows that coaching makes a material difference
Again, this was in response to Jiri’s asking me why I think the failure of team to achieve to its potential is more on coach than players. (And I acknowledge that you need both doing a good job to win)
I just don’t buy the view that players are mentally fragile, or that a young pretty good roster needs to be blown up.
And I was wondering if it was just the reality that you can’t just change a coach to fix things, if that was a contributor to why people are inclined to look elsewhere for the solution.
Because when you have something that looks like it may be hopeless, and you are stuck with it, well... that’s no good