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Originally Posted by MarkGio
It's so obvious that he's really bad it really makes you question what's going on behind the scenes. I mean, nobody has to be a professional coach to see how obvious it is. There's only a few possibilities that come to mind:
1) Management is asking Hartley to put Hiller in net
-- Trying to increase his trade value
-- Deliberately tanking
-- Hard to explain/justify benching the salary?
2) Hartley is purposely putting Hiller in net
-- Has an unreasonable distaste for Ortio
-- Has an obsession/attachment to Hiller (ie, God parent to his kid or something)
-- Hartley is incompetent
It's this kind of stuff that displays the inconsistency and misrepresentation of the phrase "Always earned, never given". Again, it is so obvious Hiller is not fit to tend the crease at any time.
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Jonas Hiller has 400+ NHL games under his belt. If Joni Ortio still can't make a compelling case in practice for him to be put in net, that's not Bob Hartley's fault. It's on Ortio.
This is Irving all over again. No reason Ortio shouldn't be grabbing this opportunity like a 13 year old discovering alone time. That he isn't tells us a lot about Joni.
This can't continue for 25 more games, so I hope we get Murray