The whole Hartley situation just reflects so bad on Treliving. Everyone assumed Hartley would gone after the last year of his contract in 2014/15, so Brad could bring in his guy. Then Hartley goes and does something annoying like win the Jack Adams pretty much forcing Treliving to re-sign him to a 2 year extension. Then after the first year of that extension he fires him because the team had atrocious goaltending, a problem Treliving created. At least let him play out the last year of the contract you offered and maybe find him some competent goaltending. Yes I know, advanced stats blah blah blah, but the Flames have better advanced stats this year and look much worse. Practically everyone outside Frolik, Backlund, Brouwer looks undeniably worse and I'm not sure I buy the whole "lost the room" excuse. If this is what a players coached team looks like, give me a hard ass all day long (giggity).
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