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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
If Hartley gets a good chunk of credit for last season (including the Jack Adams), shouldn't he also get part of the blame for this season? Has to go both ways, no?
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Depends why you think we've struggled this season. There's a few reasons I don't think he really had complete control over.
1) Rusty start by Gio after his injury
2) Slow adaptation by Hamilton to our team
3) Injuries to Brodie and Bouma
4) Rough start by all of our defensemen and goalies
5) General bad puck luck this year
6) Overall poor play by Wideman and Hudler, two of our important veterans one in a contract year
I think the coaching staff should shoulder some blame sure. The power play in particular hasn't been as good as it needed to be. Maybe Hartley's road match ups need to be better. But there's a lot of other reasons why we've struggled that Hartley shouldn't be held responsible for. So to overall call the coaching a failure would be a gross exaggeration IMO.