If winning the Cup is your line in the sand in determining is a good or bad coach... then I’ll glad your not the GM lol.
To my eye, this is one the best coached Oilers teams in what like 20 years? Our PP is good this year and last year. Our Pk is good this year and last year (despite personnel changes), effort levels up and down the lineup are high, buy in is high, team has steadily increased in many areas during his tenure, our young players are developing and doing well under his watch.... you’d think comin from the likes of Eakins, Krueger, Koala, MacT etc we could get some respect for what Tipps has accomplished but I guess not.
Well, we have Connor McDavid. Plus, Leon Draisaitl.
Gretzky won 4 cups. Crosby won 3 cups.
Mario Lemieux only won 2 cups, and that was frankly a tragedy.
We have, to my eye, the best player of an era on our team. The bar should be a Stanley Cup when you have a player like this.
Also, Leon Draisaitl. Our 2nd best player is a Hart winner, who BEAT his pace this season.
Does Tippett have a hand in their success? Absolutely he does. But last year the team had a strong year, and what is the ultimate thing we remember? Bounced by Chicago, in a kind of embarrassing fashion. Yes, lots of excuses to be made about that, but with our talents, being good in the regular season is a given. We've been blessed. The playoffs are where our coaching truly gets put to the test, best on best.
Tippett has only had one playoff, in a weird year. He has plenty of time for me to become a legend here. I just haven't agreed with a lot of the decision-making.