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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
It can't help that we fired Hartley just one season after winning the Jack Adams and guiding an underdog team in the early stages of a rebuilding to the conference semi-finals. It gives the optics that there is no room for error and that the Flames management is tough to please.
If you are a young up and coming coach, it's not an ideal situation to step into as failure could mean a short NHL career. And proven veteran coaches have better options.
I think we need to accept that this team is going to have to turn over a lot of rocks and won't have first pick. When Hartley was let go, I thought there was no way that Burkliving would do that without having someone lined up, but now I have to wonder.
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Ottawa goes through coaches just as fast or faster and they didn't have any issues filling their coaching roles. It's simply a supply and demand thing where there's only 30 jobs and plenty of coaches that want to be head coaches. Also coaches and agents are all aware of that the NHL is a results based business and they all know once they are hired the clock starts ticking. Outside of Boudreau I can't think of one desirable coach on the market that the Flames have missed out on.