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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
I stand by my opinion that Hartley is the worst coach to coach the Flames since Greg Gilbert but the only way he is fired after the season is if Feaster is. I feel Feaster is going to get another season and so will Hartley. However if the Flames are playing next season like they did this season there will be absolutely no way he returns for a 3rd season. If I wasn't a Flames fan and watched this team without any emotional attachment the first thing that would come to my mind is that this team needs to fire this coach as the team isn't prepared and cannot play team defense at all. It's nothing personal and I actually find him quite likeable in his interviews it's just that he's had no answers for anything this year and the fact that the team could never once win more than two games in a row tells me that nothing he's done has stuck with the players.
The length of this rebuild will not only be tied to talent but to coaching. I feel a more defense oriented head coach is the way to go with a young rebuilding team as bringing the kids up on a run and gun mentality with little attention to defense simply builds too many bad habits. Had Darryl continued to coach the Flames I believe Phaneuf's game would have never nosedived like it did under Keenan. NHL teams aren't stupid. There was a reason guys like Keenan and Hartley were kicked to the curb and that's because the feeling around the league is that they are no longer qualified to coach NHL hockey. Hartley is coaching the Flames for the same reason Keenan did. He has close ties to the GM. Unfortunately that is entirely the wrong basis for a personnel hiring of this magnitude.
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I would say Greg Gilbert was a better coach, but made a few major screw ups. I'd say Mike Keenan is the worse, but an argument can be made for Hartley. For all those that say Brent was all the Flames problems, we were still a 90 point team. We took a straight nose dive into the toilet this year, and our GAA has gone through the roof. Thats pretty telling.
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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Fans can't point to three straight 90+ point seasons as a reason Brent is a bad coach so they grasp at straws and bring up silly things like values of players. Brent was never about individuals having career seasons. Brent was about the team playing as a team and doing the little things right. Sure a lot of players didn't have career seasons under him but the team won more games than they lost and overachieved during his tenure.
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100% correct
Thought one thing I do have to thank Hartley for, driving this team into the toilet made management finally realize its time to rebuild. The biggest problem with Brent is he got this team to over perform and fooled Feaster three times that we were a playoff contending team.