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Originally Posted by wingmaker
I don't disagree with you. I think you are right on both counts. But ultimately that means Brent failed as a coach of this team. His job was to get the team to play together with Iginla. Does management deserve criticism for not finding some better support players? Yes. But Brent still failed to get the most of the team. Especially when you consider that Kiprusoff stole them a handful of games evry year to make their record look better that it was.
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Agreed. Brent's biggest failing was that he couldn't get Iginla to buy in but to be fair Hartley also found out last season that Iginla had become bigger than the team. Iginla had no organizational power in Pittsburgh so it was easy for Blysma to demote him when he freelanced but no Calgary Flames coach either had the stones or was allowed to put him in his place since Darryl Sutter was the head coach.