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Originally Posted by Dion
Coach Hartley has been a huge positive for the team. His tough love approach seemed to motivate Backlund to play some of his best hockey. We can only hope the same will apply to Baertschi if he can regain his confidence.
This is the first in many many years that we haven't heard rumours of splits in the dressing room as to how the game should be played. The team as a whole has bought into the system and works their tails off everynight. We don't always win but the effort is often exciting to watch.
There's excitement in Abby as to how our prospects are playing. From Grandlund to Ferland and Ortio there is a glimmer of hope that someday we might see some of those players in a Flames uniform.
Best of all no more talk of adding aging vets to help get us a playoff spot.
No more talk and little action from Feaster. Burke is the change we needed and I look forward to many years of truculence hockey.
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Backlund credited a number of individuals for helping him gain back/improve his confidence in an interview a couple of months ago. He did not even mention Hartley, likely because Hartley did very little to improve his confidence at that point in time. Now that Backlund has improved Hartley is taking credit by stating they are working closely with him with videos.