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Originally Posted by MarkGio
To me, Hartley was a better coach than Gulutzan for several reasons:
1) Hartley tuned in the refs for bad calls
2) Hartley showed emotion when his team wasn't performing
3) Hartley's system was exciting to watch offensive, and while it resulted in injuries and bad possession stats, the Flames had fun tic-tac-toe plays and showed good 4-on-3 with the defensemen jumping up
4) Hartley did things like start his 4th line against the Sedins (automatic bonus point)
5) Hartley got career years out of Brodie, Giordano, Monahan, Stajan, Colborne, Wideman, and shaped Backlund and Byron to be the players they are
Versus Gulutzan, who's just apathetic to the game all the time and runs optional skates.
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Tough to grade the awful lockout shortened season so I will exclude that train wreck. In Hartley's next 3 years the Flames were a far more entertaining team to watch. They are such a "blah" team under GG. We have spurts on the PP or chunks of zone time here and there that looks good but it seems like scoring chances are way down and our offense is certainly worse.
I agree that Hartley took the team as far as he could but Gulutzan was a poor hire. Should have been Boudreau who is having his typical first season with a team where he takes them from average to elite.