I didn't like Hartley's approach to Baertschi. You don't need to coddle the kid, but he was put under an unfair microscope. He was demoted, had his ice-time reduced or benched any time he even looked like he may have made a bad play. Meanwhile Comeau and Glencross have clearly bet one another to see who can get away with the more boneheaded terrible moves before Hartley does the same to them.
Throw in Hartley benching Cervenka because Begin took a high stick in the Phoenix game and Brodie being a healthy scratch for any reason and I'd want the team to stay clear of Hartley once/if they do enter a true rebuild.
That said, I like his up-tempo system.
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