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Originally Posted by kyuss275
I don't like Hartely's non-defensive system. That said, he has not been given anything to work with. Flames are made up of mostly 3rd/ 4th liners and 2nd/3rd pairing d-men. He has gotten the players to buy in and play harder than past teams. As for goalies what is he suppose to do? He was given 3 back-up goalies to start the year and told to make one of them the starter.
I think he is fine for now, and if he can't install a defensive system by next year then he should be let go for someone that can.
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I think last season's roster wasn't great but it was an upgrade on the roster Brent had to work with the season before with the additions of Hudler and Wideman with Jokinen being the lone major piece that left. His team was nowhere near as competitive as Brent's leading to a fire sale at the deadline and this season after a quick start has settled into more of the same. When the team plays well for him they are fun to watch but when they are bad they are god awful defenseively which as of late has been more the norm.
Only the Oilers are worse defensively and in a couple more weeks the Flames may own that title all by themselves. IMO you can turn the corner if your team plays solid defense but has some hard luck on offense but if you can't play defense at all you will never improve or become a solid team. Bob's team can't play defense and I'm leaning to him being the 2nd worst head coach in Flames history after Greg Gilbert although Don Hay is in the conversation as well.