Hartley's likely done at the end of the season as it's not typical that a head coach survives a new GM hiring and Hartley hasn't established himself as a coach that deserves another season with a bottom 6 and likely bottom 5 finish this season. Yes the talent is poor but he hasn't done enough to likely convince a new GM not to bring his own guy in. Playing hard is great and all but just steering a bad team to an expected bad finish IMO isn't what I would call positive or trending anywhere up.
I'm hoping that the Predators tank and Trotz becomes available. He seems like a perfect coach for a rebuild. It's probably a long shot that he would get relieved of his position but every head coach has a shelf life and it's possible that organization needs a new direction.
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