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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Firing Hartley isn't a mistake as the team drafted top 6 or better 3/4 seasons as head coach. Treliving was 100% correct when he said Hartley had taken the team as far as he could. Most of us here knew that Hartley would not be the coach to ultimately lead this team to Cup contender status and Treliving simply didn't want to waste another season on a coach that he didn't believe had the team playing the way they needed to compete with the elite clubs of the NHL.
The only real mistake he's made to date is the goaltending situation and in his defense Ramo/Hiller got the team to the playoffs the season before so it's not like he rolled the dice on the tandem being good enough to get them to the playoffs. It didn't work out but ever GM makes mistakes as every team has some bad contracts and some bad drafts. The key is to ensure that the good moves outnumber the bad moves and in that respect it's not even close at this stage as he's done far more good than bad.
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The Hartley firing isn't really the problem. But he DID roll the dice on the goaltending imo. Treliving had to know the team wouldn't be able to pull of the amount of come from behind wins they did last season.
Sure they had a couple of games where goaltending stole points, but those can be counted on one hand. There was a number of games in a row where Hiller let in the first shot on net last season as well. He also spotted the Canucks a 3-0 first period lead in game 6.
Treliving had Ramo on waivers after just 3 starts coming into a brand new contract. That's not good management.
If Treliving doesn't fix his goaltending coming into next season it won't matter who he hires as the HC.