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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
I think you have to although the owners will have to be comfortable paying Hartley not to coach for a couple of seasons. The facts are that despite spending $$$ on free agent upgrades in the offseason the team has badly regressed under Hartley. Team defense is 30th and it wasn't even that bad under Keenan and his roster managment has been abysmal. He simply looks like a guy that was justly not working in this league for years.
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To be fair without the Kipper of last season we likely would have been 30th in team defense too.
Our defensive zone positioning has been pretty bad but our goaltending has been terrible and not really helped in this regard.
We are actually only 8th in the league in shots against (terrible stat I know) but have a .883 save percentage which is 3rd last in the league.
I think our records are actually identical after 20 or so games last season and this team did that with Kipper out and only one actual center.