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Originally Posted by moon
They aren't competitive every night at all.
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Seriously, come on man, the team which was already pretty limited on talent to start the season has lost 213 games to injuries (12th most in the NHL). Players who have missed more than 10 games this season:
Cammallari
Stajan
David Jones
Blair Jones
Giordano (missed 18 games and is still 2nd in points on the team)
Glencross
Wideman
Russell
Ramo
Players who have missed between 5 and 10 games:
Monahan
Galiardi
Stempniak
And now Hudler, the Flames top point producer, has missed 4 games so far.
On top of all this is a team that has had 4 different goaltenders in net this year, 2 of which hadn't played a game in the NHL prior to this season, and the other two being made up of a career backup and one that hadn't played in the NHL since 2008-2009 (and had 48 career games in the NHL prior to this season).
Taking all that, I really don't know how you could say Hartley could be doing any better with what he has to work with. This team puts in the effort more consistently than in the past 5 years. Everyone can see this, fans, analysts, the GM, and other team's coaches and players. Everyone except for you it seems.