Coming into this year, Gulutzan was a career 0.53% Head Coach. He's the definition of mid. Having no coach would yield similar performance as he has had as a Head Coach.
The next coach of the Flames will be hired in 2 years. Huska will coach for his life every night making questionable roster decisions but the Flames will still bottom out and pick high for the next 2 seasons. The fruits of Conroy's solid drafting over the last 2 drafts and presumably next 2 drafts will start to yield solid roster players and a turning of the page.
I can only hope that Joel Quennville will be available at that time, but he'll be leading Anaheim to the top of the Pacific Division so I'll have to come to terms with that.
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