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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
When Gulutzan was hired, it was reported that the Flames had considered Yeo, Rierden, and Carlyle, and they all signed elsewhere before Treliving settled on Gultzan. I am not sure about the first two, but Carlyle probably would not have been cheap. After Hartley was fired 1 year removed from a Jack Adams, I don’t think too many coaches wanted to take a dive into the Flames if they had other opportunities. The team was supposed to be in a rebuild but the bar for results was unreasonably high after the Flames overachieving the year before.
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I still think Rierden might make a good HC. In his 2 years as Washington's coach (despite going out in round 1 of the playoff both years), he had win % of .634, and .652. Since then, he's been in Pittsburgh, under the tutelage of Mike Sullivan.