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Originally Posted by MarkGio
To me, Hartley was a better coach than Gulutzan for several reasons:
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
5) Hartley got career years out of Brodie, Giordano, Monahan, Stajan, Colborne, Wideman, and shaped Backlund and Byron to be the players they are
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Hartley may have actually hurt the Flames cap situation.
We're paying for Gaudreau, Giordano and Monahan's career seasons right now when in fact they might be substantially inflated by a wide open style that is not conducive to long term success.