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Originally Posted by polak
Hartley is a bad coach. If it's not his special teams than he needs to man up and sack whoever is the special teams coach (even if its Gelinas) cause they're obviously not doing their job.
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This post is terrible and represents the same reactionary thinking that saw people say Hamilton will never be better than a second pairing D or how Gio is terrible all of a sudden, or Monahan is now nothing more than a 2-3 line Centre. It's just baffling to me.
First of all, the team is on a 4 game winning streak and has improved their possession and Defensive play over the last month to the point where it is arguably better than last year. Secondly, the body of work on special teams is enough to say that this is a bad stretch. It is compounded because both are happening at once. But none the less, a bad stretch. Third, Hartley can't fire people, he can't win D zone face-offs for people and he can't make wide open saves from the high slot for people.
The players will work themselves out of this and learn to be more consistent. Give your head a shake... Firing Hartley and Gelinas? Good grief