People can make the "weak roster" argument for as long as it suits their argument but it's a results oriented business and he has the worst winning percentage of any Flames head coach and IMO this roster is better than some of the trash that was iced during the young guns years. You need only to look back at some of those rosters for firm confirmation.
I would rather see a Lemaire type coach that is going to get a bunch of plugs playing solid team defense and being competitive on most nights than the river hockey approach of Hartley that looks very similar to the program they are running up north.
My biggest beef is that he never got this job on merit in the first place. I can't stand that he was hired because he's Feaster's buddy. We are stuck with him as the Flames head coach not because he was the best candidate for the job but because he's the godfather of Feaster's kids. It's the wrong way to operate a professional sports franchise and the fact that the two are so close makes it impossible for the GM to be objective when evaluating his coach. The optics are just as awful of the team up north that we often mock. I don't believe this team can move forward until one or both of Feaster/Hartley is removed.
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