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Originally Posted by bax
Developed quite a few prospects in Stockton during his 3 years as well. Hathaway, Lomberg, Jankowski, Mangiapane, Kylington, Andersson, Dube.
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We've said it before, Huska became the coach of the Heat in 2014. Nearly every prospect on the team regressed under Huska. Reinhart, Poirier, Baertschi, Granlund, Hanowski, Knight, all regressed. In other words, every actual forward prospect at the time saw regression.
Things were going much better under Ward (his predecessor). The team was also better.
Huska coached the Heat through the Flames' rebuild. If anything, that's when the prospect pool was the deepest, and that's when the team should have been the best. Sure, Love had Wolf, but Huska also had a World Junior and NCAA winning goaltender. It's just that the prospect, under Huska, didn't develop.
It's is apparent that the notion of Huska being promoted to head coach is mixed at best. If Love ends up being named coach, I can guarantee that CP will have almost unanimous support for the decision.