Depends what your goals are.
Bob came here to a veteran team with the likes of Iggy Tang Cammy Bouw Gio Brodie Kipper and the list goes on. He could not motivate that team to play at all. Should lead one to believe he is not good at coaching veteran players. As in he can not motivate veteran players to play at a high level.
So we dumped alot of the vets and the remaining vets play like?????? I consider Gio a vet but a totally different vet based off how he entered the league. Gio is a freak! Yet if you exclude him who amongst the vets shows up? I consider a vet 25 or older.
Do our young guys bust their butts? You bet they do. Its a combination of desire to stick with the big club and also coaching. I will give Hartley credit there. A young guy has to be at least twice as good as a vet to make this team. Fair? No, but it does motivate.
I do hate how Hartley comes up with his lines. Us fans are dumb but when we see something so obvious and the coach does not for several games I question him alot. Top six forwards should play with top six forwards. When you find chemistry you leave the players together.
Few games back he broke up Gio and Brodie. Cost us 2 quick goals against. One of the best tandems in the league and he breaks them up. Dont fix what is not broken!!!
Never the less I would extent Hartley for another year or two. I think he is a terrible coach with veteran players but our team is young and only going to get younger next year. Its in the 2 -3 year time frame when we start signing some veteran FA's to truly try to contend, thats when I want him gone. Who knows though, in 2 years time my opinion may change. My opinion may change by the end of the season too!
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