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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
I put way more faith in the bigger sample sizes. Playoffs are a bit of a crap shoot and goaltending and luck play a huge factor. I don't think it was anything that Boudreau was doing that was causing his teams to struggle in the playoffs.
Of coaches with over 600 games coached he has the second highest regular season win percentage to just Scotty Bowman with a .635 win percentage. More division titles and 100 point seasons as a coach than the Flames have in their entire history. Yeah I'd take that guy.
Not like any of those Washington, Anaheim, or Minnesota teams had immediate playoff success after he left.
Boudreau is a guy that would squeeze every last drop out of a team over the longer sample size of multiple regular seasons, tends to win division titles, and puts up 100 point seasons. I put more faith in that than a guy that got lucky and had a good playoff run one time (Gallant for example).
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It's funny though - I totally agree with you about PO success being a crap shoot. But lack of PO success when the team made the POs fairly handily under Peters and GG's first year, and under Ward, were huge complaints here.
How about a guy who's won a cup, made the finals two other times (once with another team) and only missed the POs twice out of 17 years and 3 teams (the only two years he won less than .578%)?