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Originally Posted by Fan in Exile
Sure, a few changes may have made some minor differences but we have consistently had the worst special teams in the league over 64 games.
Some people never ever want to look at coaching. Some people always blame coaching. Surely there is some reasonable space in between and when your special teams are consistently bad over a period of a complete season or poor to terrible over several seasons with the same coaching staff but with a fairly considerable turnover of personnel, it is definitely the time that coaching got a rigorous assessment.
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I'm definitely not opposed to coaching criticism. It's frustrating as a fan when management allows an underachieving staff to coach out their contract.
I had the exact same mentality with Hartley's predecessor. 3 full seasons, zero playoff games, zero series wins. Hell, those teams even had a bonafide #1 in Kiprusoff.
I can't pile on the fire Hartley wagon yet, the Flames series victory over the Canucks bought a lot of goodwill with me.