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Originally Posted by dissentowner
Great, so you want to go back to to the run and gun system Hartley employed? It sure caught everyone off guard initially but once other teams caught on we became the worst defensive team in the NHL. Sure is exciting though to watch the D men chip in a couple points every game while our goalies look like crap and are giving up 6-7 goals a game. Although you might as well let Brodie skate up and try and generate offence, he can't play defence anyhow so might as well get something out of him.
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So Hartley's system in 2014/15 gets us to the second round of the playoffs with above average goaltending. But in 2015/16 when we get the worst goaltending in the league it is all Hartley's fault and the other coaches have "figured him out"?
Treliving was in a hurry to fire Hartley, even going as far as to sabotage him by not resolving the goaltending problem until after he was already fired. Then he replaces a coach with a proven track record and a Stanley Cup ring with a dunce who has never won a playoff game?
Can we put the nonsense that Hartley was a bad coach to rest? He wasn't perfect, surely, but he was a hell of a lot more effective than the hair jell in a suit we have now.
And those saying Hartley was hated and had to go -- all I hear is "the Flames had some whiners and they got their way." Look where giving in to whiners gets us.