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Originally Posted by mikeecho
What I get from this article is that Hartley was open and brutally honest with a guy who was a borderline NHLer and more than likely should have been a minor leaguer. Use your skill sets and suck up the injuries or you have no place on this roster as someone else will take your job.
That's the reality for 1/2 of the guys in the league. At least he heard it straight from the coach. Many coaches in the league don't even talk to the players and leave that to the assistants.
If Parker wanted to have the message sugar coated, then he'd likely have spent his career in the minors. I suspect it's more bitterness from a tough guy like Parker who resented being bossed around by a guy half his size who never played in the NHL.
For those wanting the Flames to fire Hartley because of this article... I suspect you'd be mortified if you knew how Darryl treated his players. If you go by Warreners accounts, Darryl had the same kind of dialogue, except he would call out and embarrass his players infront of the entire team... And the people of Calgary pretty much have him the key to the city for being a great coach.
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Bang on, threat of job loss is an everyday thing in most people's lives. In the real world, If you aren't doing your job, you get fired and your contract is not guaranteed, unlike how good the players have it.
Demotion and ice time are the only tools with which coaches have to motivate players. I think the bigger question from this article is what Hartley is saying when he stands behind Sven on the bench after he turns the puck over?
"I hear sirens" or "I smell weed"?