It sounds like a lot of you are finally ready to accept that Hartley should be taking part of the blame this season. His system was great while it lasted, but as soon as the rest of the league caught on it stopped working. If he's not able to adapt then I'd say it's time for a new coach.
This team needs to learn how to score goals off the cycle. We have skilled players that can do more than dump, chase and score off the rush. Once the system starts dictating a cycle we'll start to have some consistent powerplay success.
Even his deployment of Ortio was atrocious to start the year. Only played him against power house teams instead of letting the rookie build up some confidence. Didn't give him much of a chance to prove himself and then just rode Ramo when he started to play decently. Hartley has too much loyalty to his vets on a team that's very obviously led by the young players, it's not acceptable.
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