yes, I noticed that too, and perhaps there is a red flag there. To be honest, a jack adams winner (3x finalist in just 6 real seasons excluding fired years and CBJ) with such an amazing winning record (313-186-64 when excluding the early CBJ years) should never be available so easily. You might be right that someone is up. Still, (ecl CBJ), in his full coaching seasons, he is batting .500 as a Jack adams finalist! Thats crazy!
OR...
Those teams are stupid! FLA fired gallant and proceeded to miss the playoffs in three straight seasons. VGK was an expansion team that rocked it off the start. They actually miss the PO's for their only time the year after Gallant was fired (though won the cup the year after that). NYR was not very good prior to his arrival but is now crushing it.
Im not saying Gallant is the reason for all those facts, but his record transforming teams, particularly presently unsuccessful or unproven teams is pretty amazing.
1. FLA: missed the PO's in the previous two seasons including a 29-45-8 record for 66 pts in the year before gallant. He comes, they improve from 66 to 91 points, narrowly missing POs. Then improve to 103 pts and make the POs. he then gets fired 22 games in at 11-10-1, and they proceed to miss the PO's the next three years.
2. VGK was expansion: they were supposed to stink. he came, they crushed it and made Wild bill, shea theodore and others into stars.
3. NYR had missed the PO's 3 of the 4 seasons before gallant's arrival (partly with David Quinn of course) and were 27-23-6 (88 pt full season pace). He came, they then crushed it improving to 110 pts.
In ohers words, in his first year, FLA improved 25 points and NYR improved 22 pts (equivalent) and vegas hit the ground running from expansion. His record is amazing. I dont know why he seems to only last 2-3 years each time, but he takes soso/bad and makes them very good very fast. Ill take my chances!