[SuperMatt18]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

Vegas doesn’t seem like a great example, haven’t they built a quick reputation for treating people like garbage and cranking through coaches?

The guys you mentioned are one example, but there’s also guys who have been with their teams for 4-5 years not mentioned, and guys like Maurice and Quenneville who spent good stretches with previous teams recently. I don’t know that 2 years is close to the average or normal, it sure doesn’t seem like it. And as far as I know, the Flames since 98 have turned through more coaches than almost any other team (I think they’re at 15 over 25 years or something)? Either way, we average one coach less than every 2 years over both the last 10 and 20 years.

I think you also have to count Ward and Peters separately. Ward took over, but then he was also hired on a permanent basis when another coach could have been selected and fired after a year of work.

None of this to say this is or isn’t on Sutter, but when we turn on a coach (which is more often than most teams) we turn on them hard.

This is a bit outdated but

NHL head coaches have one of the highest turnover rates in major sports; their average tenure is currently 2.4 years. That’s slightly more than the 2.3 year average in the NBA, where there was a record number of coaching changes last offseason, but far short of the NFL’s 3.6 years and MLB’s 3.8.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features...LB's%203.8.