Yeah, I don't think Gulutzan is as far above Hartley as we want to think. Both teams have been consistently below average in fancy stats, and both coaches made the playoffs whenever they've had > 0.920% goaltending. Gulutzan's teams have had slightly better fancy stats, but they've also had significantly better rosters. And for all the talk of Hartley's teams being a "tire fire", Gulutzan's got significantly worse stats with this year's team than even the 2013-14 Flames, arguably the low point in our recent history.
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