When you have a 'should-have-been' Hart winner carrying your team, and players playing well above their apparent abilities (according to you), then yes, sometimes youll have that. That, and since half the league makes the playoffs, getting there shouldnt be your measuring stick for a good coach. If it is, get a new stick.
Ive never concerned myself with if you take my seriously or not, because I can't take your hockey opinions serious, either. Mostly because they contradict each other when youre given enough time to dig yourself into a hole.
Your social commentary in the Coronavirus threads though?? Keep those coming.
Those teams were paper thin, I mean all I heard for five years was a litany of complaint about a dozen players who shouldn't be on the roster - but somehow a real coach would have gotten 110 points and into the SC finals with them?
Between 2012-2018, the Flyers had one decent goalie for three years who choked in the POs (Mason) and five forwards, Couts, G (when he was healthy), Voracek, Simmonds, Schenn (until he was traded). On defense they had Provorov, Streit for a couple seasons, Ghost for 2 seasons and a cast of thousands (AMac, Gudas, MDZ, Grossman, L Schenn, Manning, Hagg et al). They struggled to put together two solid lines and two pairs of defensemen.
To make the playoffs three times with a team that thin is an accomplishment.
Now I don't think Hasktol was a great coach, my opinion is similar to Appleyard, he had some strengths and some weaknesses that made him a middle of the pack coach. Same with Berube. Given them the right talent they can win, but they're not going to perform miracles.
Peters however was a failure in Carolina (Brind'Amour immediately turned that team around), and a disaster in Calgary.
As far as Bylsma, sometimes good coaching is simply not screwing up a good thing.
He jump started them in 2008-09 and won a Cup.
And didn't get in their way, you could claim his problem in the playoffs was less coaching than Fleury being a head case:
2009-10: .891 S%
2010-11: .899 S%
2011-12: .834 S%
2012-13: .883 S%
2013-14: .915 S% , lose 2nd rd in 7 games to AV
Johnston takes over, 10 less points than the season before
2014-15: .927 S%, but still lose in the 1st rd
Sullivan takes over from Johnston mid-season, Murray .923 S% in the playoffs, win Cup
2016-17: Fleury .924, Murray .937 S% in the playoffs, win another Cup
2017-18: Murray .907 S% and they lose to the Caps in the 2nd rd
Maybe it's more about a hot goalie in the playoffs than brilliant coaching?