[djsFlames]

I'd actually like to see Ward up here. And I thought he would've been a good choice when they were looking at who to hire. An intelligent coach that has a defined system and sticks to it, and obviously right now has every player buying in down in Abby. He's got plenty of experience with young players.

Hartley is alright, but I feel like he's inexperienced with this type of situation and how to handle some young guys and get them to understand what to do. And I really don't get his system. We seem like a pretty loosy-goosey offensive club that is always looking for the quick transition, but we're not even doing that much right now, so I'm left wondering exactly what kind of structure our team game has. And then when our young kids aren't great defensively, he sits them and gives them the tough treatment, makes the kid watch our crappy system at work fail and us get blown out, and then expect them to come out of it knowing what to do at the other end of the rink. We don't need to go full Brent sutter with out system, but at least have some obvious team structure in the defensive end. Just seems like we're running around too often and when the goals start to pile up we don't know how to adjust as a team to stem the tide, and instead rely on stand-on-head goaltending to slow the opposition down. And I think a good part of that is on coaching.

I am dissatisfied at the moment, but at the same time I think that even with a better team system and a guy like Ward behind the bench, with the level of competition in our division and conference, he still probably wouldn't achieve much better results.