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Originally Posted by Ashasx
Hartley hasn't done anything with Monahan/Brodie yet. Brodie was all Playfair, so I have no idea why you give him such credit (Hartley benched Brodie in our first game of the season last year in favour of players like Butler, and we were crushed... he knew it was a mistake). Monahan, while has played well over these first dozen or so games, has not proven enough to give Hartley a pat on the back. Monahan is just a really good prospect, which is why he was drafted high in the best draft in a decade.
A lot of people thought the Flames were doing the right thing being tough on Savard. Welp, 2 years after we trade him, he's scoring 97 points. Would have been nice to finally have that #1 centre.
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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So when a player does well under Hartley's system it's either because of natural talent or the AHL coach? But if he doesn't then it's Hartley's fault?
Right.....
Maybe benching Brodie at the beginning of last season and giving him limited ice time for most of the beginning of the year is actually what turned him into a decent 23 year old 1st pairing D-man..... maybe. Who knows though, because we all know that Hartley has no clue what he's doing.