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Originally Posted by Ashasx
And people ragged on Tanguay all the time on this board for being poor defensively and not caring during his entire career with the Flames. So how did Hartley actually help Tanguay in this respect? ...it probably has more to do with him being a point per game player in his prime. He's a natural talent.
Drury. A good (not great) player for 3 years of his career, and he fell off as quickly as any player has in this league. We don't want that from our prospects.
Hartley's resume on developing young players is as bad as it gets in the NHL.
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Hartley was great at developing young players in Colorado and it was a big reason they were good in his time there.
Hartley played a role in developing the following NHLers: Tanguay, Hejduk, Drury, Deadmarsh, Vrbata, Reinprect, Heatley, Kovalchuk, Stefan.
He coached all of those players in their first 1-3 NHL seasons. Just because you don't like how he is handling one player doesn't mean he is suddenly a terrible coach that doesn't know how to develop players.
How about Colborne, Brodie, Russell, Monahan, whom all young guys who are thriving under Hartley right now?
But no because Sven is playing bad it is all the coaches fault and they are ruining him.
We need to hold players accountable for there play on the ice because holding the coaches accountable is how we ended up with the mess of the team that led to this rebuild.
Also Brodie was benched in the first game last year because he had a poor camp and wasn't working hard. He seemed to get the message though and turned it around from then on out.