I can't wait until we can say that Dave Tippett wasn't our best coach ever.
I have nothing against the guy as a person, but the fact that he's at the top of our coaching pyramid by common consensus says a lot about how bad our overall coaching history has been.
I still think Tippett's best move was to pick his group of favorites and ride with them, and while that group contained vets with great leadership qualities like Doan, Aucoin, and Whitney, we prospered. It didn't hurt that the blood-from-stone Super Tippy Trap made some wholly average goalies seem like superstars (not just Bryz and Smitty, but guys like Tellqvist who probably wouldn't have even been third-stringers on a real team), and that in 2012 Mike Smith had a come-to-Jeebus epiphany that he never had before and could not replicate afterward.
I will wholeheartedly admit that Tippett's maneuverings post-2012 have soured me incredibly on him professionally, so yeah, I'm biased. But I hope we're aspiring toward a higher level of coaching greatness than what he delivered.