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Originally Posted by 1qqaaz
Just out of curiosity, how would you rank the last 5 Flames coaches during their tenues with the Flames?
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1) Peters - Horrible person but he had this team playing at a peak that no other coach was able to. His biggest coaching mistake was overreacting to the loss against Colorado and trying to play more heavy hockey that he thought would work better in the playoffs going into 19-20
2) Gulutzan - Made his mistakes and wasn’t the best motivator but he was actually a good teaching coach and had this team playing with a structure and strong system which was needed after Hartley.
3) Hartley - Not a good systems coach, and didn’t have this team playing with structure that was sustainable for long term success but probably the best motivator this core has had. Gets credit for 14-15 but his three other seasons as head coach were really bad and that often gets forgotten.
4) Brent - Had an old aging roster and core that he was trying to get to play a system that didn’t really suit the roster. Similar to Ward in a lot of Ways.
5) Ward - Honeslty feel like this is the worst system I’ve seen this team play in the last 15 years. He’s getting the least out of any Flames coach in that time IMO
It’s funny I see a lot of similarities in the coaches at the end of Iggy’s tenure with the Flames compared to this cores coaches
Playfair = Gulutzan : Had his flaws but was probably unfairly blamed for a lot of the teams short comings but both were good teachers that had the team playing with strong structure.
Keenan = Peters : Both questionable characters that had the team playing the best of out of the other coaches of the same time period. Both teams showed flashes of brilliance under the coach but flounded down the stretch and into the playoffs in the best chance we had
B.Sutter = Ward: Both bad coaches that couldn’t motivate the players they had, and keep trying to shove a square peg into a round hole by trying to get the players to play an ultra conservative, boring system that didn’t suit their strengths.
Unfortunately I don’t think this core ever got their Darryl Sutter.