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Originally Posted by seventieslord
Cook coached in a league that contained the next-best 100 or so players in the world. Are you really going to punish him for the NHL being just 6 teams? Even extrapolating for talent pool and stuff, the players he coached were relavitely as good as average NHL players today. I don't know why he didn't get a chance in the NHL, or even if he was never offered one. He might have been. There were quite a few coaches who came and went in the O6 era that Cook was clearly better than, though.
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I've always thought an average AHL team back then would beat an average NHL now. I never done the proper research on it though. Could be intresting to see what one would come up with.