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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
Ward was and is a good assistant, but had no success as a head coach and his interim stint (which was justifiable) saw the Flames' underlying metrics plummet from elite a year prior to bubble team with largely the same roster. So for him to be re-signed was insane.
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I am still convinced that they only re-signed Ward as a placeholder because Sutter, for family reasons, was not yet ready to come out of retirement.
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