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Originally Posted by dammage79
Oilers or not, Tippett is a good hire. He has the ability to dumb down the game enough to get his teams competitive when they're terrible depth wise. Aka he knows how to coach a bunch of plugs.
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I know he's had bad teams, but Tippett only made the POs 3 out of 7 years with the Yotes (and his first three years to boot) and made it past round one once. The year he did that he had Smith playing .930 goal. He also had a better overall lineup than Edmonton can boast - Doan, Vrbata, Whitney, Hanzal, Boedker, Langkow, Korpikoski, Vermette, OEL, Yandle, Morris, Aucoin, Stone.