Lots of dumb complaints. Fourth line not scoring? Brouwer and Stajan actually created some chances but Glass couldn't finish. That's a pretty easy fix. Lazar/Stajan/Brouwer isa pretty good fourth line and if you add Jankowski for Lazar or Stajan it's even better.
Bennett is crappy? IMO he was the best player on his line by a mile. Ferland and Versteeg are not doing much of anything.
Constant complaining about GG not flying off the handle enough. Lots of great coaches are pretty stoic.
Calls for Hartley - Hartley had a .493 winning percentage and if it wasn't for the season where everything went right he'd be even lower - his last season was .426. GG has .573 percentage. That's higher than most Flames coaches (albeit one of the smaller sample sizes). Hartley was a good guy with the media and super quotable. But he had bad systems, he seemed to wear on the players and at the end of the day, wasn't a winning coach.
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