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Originally Posted by VladtheImpaler

Rah-rah, "energy" and "hard work" are all fine and dandy when everything is fresh and you are full of naive optimism. Now that it's mid-November and we are all but officially eliminated from playoff contention, I imagine it's a lot harder to maintain the same zest for the game. It's a bad team, with mediocre goaltending, but to make things worse, Hartley is a terrible coach. How do you not manage to instill at least some semblance of a defensive system? Last year was the lockout excuse, but what about now? They still wouldn't be contenders, and I guess this is better in terms of a shot at Reinhart/Ekblad, but it's clear that Feaster's search criteria in hiring the coach was "1) must be a coach, 2) must be the godfather of my children"... I am sure he was willing to interview more people, but point (2) got in the way.

No doubt... Luckily Burke was added into the equation, and Hartley and Feaster are not "his" guys.