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Originally Posted by Aarongavey
Jarome Iginla under Hartley
And Hartley when Iginla was in the lineup puts up a .451 winning percentage and the year before Sutter had a winning percentage almost 100 points higher, Hartley over a 82 game season Hartley was on pace for 74 points, the year before Sutter got 90 points and the Flames were never worse than 90 points in any season under Sutter and Hartley is supposedly the better coach.
Sutter who averaged 91.3 points a season is a terrible coach and the reason the Flames never achieved their greatness. All the other coaches combined in the Flames playoff glory years (when they were consistently thumped in the first round except for one Cinderella run) averaged 97 points a year or less than 3 wins more a year were great and Sutter killed the team.
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Don't forget that the team that Brent had for the 2 years were still bigger than the team that Hartley got after all the big dmen are traded away, injured, or sat out most of the time. Then you get Feaster picking up small players in favor of speed as opposed to size. Hartley basically played a tinymite team on ice while most of the Western Conference teams were giants in comparison. Also, you can't compare a team with a mentality to make the playoffs with a team gunning for a rebuild.