[Poe969]

Last year Harley used the team to it's strengths and won a lot of games because teams didn't know what to expect from the Flames. This year the book was out on them, teams knew exactly what to do to beat the Flames and they did it. Some players had career years but shouldn't that lead to a better record? It's easy to blame everything on bad goalies but he chose which goalie to put in, he coached the players and told them what to do but it was the same thing as the year before and since he couldn't adjust to how teams were playing them, they lost.

Hartley just couldn't/wouldn't change the style of the teams play and the team suffered because of it. If he tried to change and the players weren't listening, it's still his fault because he's supposed to coach them and control them. If the players aren't listening, they're going to keep the players and ax the coach anyway.

His time was up and the writing was on the wall.

BT shouldn't be fired because he's only improved the team. He got better players for the team and gave more options to Hartley. I can't think of a move BT made that I would give an F to.