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Originally Posted by GioforPM
It is a retread league. But then again who would you rather have - Dubas or Lou L?
Seriously, I think the issue is owners trust a mediocre track record more than no record at all. After all, look at how Treliving has suffered from hiring a couple guys with little or no HC experience (remember all the “no retreads” calls when GG was hired versus Boudreau).
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Boudreau has .635 career winning percentage. It could take you decades to find a young coach that could win like him. I don't consider him a retread because he's a really good coach. I'm all for hiring an unproven coach that had a good junior or AHL pedigree but if that doesn't work out you kind of need to balance things with the next hire being a coach with a proven record. The thing that bothers me is that guys like Eakins and Yeo keep getting opportunities and I just don't understand how GM's can expect a bad/mediocre head coach to just flip the switch and be really good. A bad coach can ruin the trajectory of a team as well as player development but it doesn't seem to stop GM's from hiring mediocre retreads.