Pretty good description of where both teams are at. This part kind of irritated me though:
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Calgary has a new general manager in Year 1 of a rebuild, and a head coach that his own team were so unsure of, they’ve let him coach out the final year of his contract. The Flames goalie was run out of Anaheim, and at times already this season, they’ve played without three of their top-four centres from Opening Night due to injury.
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I don't think there is any reason to think that the team was unsure of Hartley. Treliving was just doing his due diligence as being the new boss. Brian Burke said himself before he hired a new GM that the he was going to encourage the new GM to consider keeping and re-signing Hartley. That was a pretty big endorsement from the team I think.