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Originally Posted by TheScorpion
That's hysterical. The Flames have greatly increased their possession figures
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Have they?
Hartley's last year here, with Kris Russell (our worst possession player) and no Matthew Tkachuk (our best possession player) we were a 47.97% xGF% team.
Gulutzan's first year here, with Tkachuk (our best possession player) and no Kris Russell (our worst possession player) we were a 49.33% xGF% team.
So that's a shade over 1% improvement with a better, more complete roster and better goaltending.
Both are sub-50% teams in terms of expected goals over a full season. One guy had Matthew Tkachuk, the other guy had Kris Russell.
He's made us play a more
responsible style with centers supporting down low, but don't confuse that with us playing "better" at 5-on-5. The only players to see significant gains in their possession numbers have really just been our worst players - guys like Matt Stajan or Deryk Engelland.
You look at Gaudreau and he had roughly the same possession numbers under Hartley (49.08% CF / 49.71% xGF%) he did under Gulutzan (50.21% CF / 49.96% xGF%) except he's been a turnover machine under Gulutzan because he has no green light to fly the zone and hit quickly. Gaudreau, Bennett, Brodie, and Giordano all stopped using their full skillsets under Gulutzan.
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and powerplay percentage since Hartley's last season,
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Hartley's last season we had the the 8th best PP over the final 50 games of the season after a slow start. I never thought Hartley's PP was broken, even if it was more of a traditional 2D 3F unit. Our 1st unit seems to actually score less goals under Gulutzan, with the major difference being a more talented 2nd unit with Matthew Tkachuk, who Hartley never had.
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as well as their number of, you know, actual points.
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Pretty sure Hartley's 97 point season was more points than we had last year.
I'm not even saying Hartley was a good coach. Just that he was a better coach than Glen Gulutzan.