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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
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.
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Yes, but again - it has to go both ways or neither.
If the bad play is on the players (and I agree that it is), then shouldn't last year's good play also be on the players?
Is it due to Hartley that Wideman and Hudler had career years? Was the hot goaltending early in the season due to Hartley?
My point is that the "Jacks Adams' argument is kind of silly: he deserves a similar amount of blame for this year, as he does credit for last year (which is to say, less than the players do in both cases IMO).