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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
I get that and fully understand what we have in Bob Hartley. My thing is that we always discuss him coaching to make the playoffs and win every game even though the reality is that he's going to miss the playoffs for the 3rd time in 4 years as Flames head coach. If this is his record trying his hardest to win is Hartley part of the solution for a rebuilding team? If he wants to play his vets to make the playoffs at all costs over developing young players I'm fine with that but the team better win but the problem is that aren't winning enough and haven't over most of his tenure. I feel he needs to be more flexible or he's making a case for his demise.
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Exactly this. A big picture take says he's been an unsuccessful coach here.
Not much heat has been put his way for years 1 and 2, because there were a lot of other guys above him (Feaster, Weisbrod, Ken King) taking the heat for bad Flames teams. But he took a group that was about a 9th-11th place team for 3 years and took them to the basement for 2 years, netting us our highest draft pick in franchise history.
The whole fanbase bought in to the "the roster is putrid". I dunno, it was just sort of mediocre under reviled former coach Brent Sutter. How did it become that much worse under Hartley when adding Hudler, Wideman?