With Hartley being a hard ass and Roy calling him an animal, that's kinda what Berezan touches on in the above article about his "knee to the groin" coaching.
It worked to get our team to the second round, but that was the very ceiling of that team. It worked for a cup in Colorado, but at the same time he had like 8 hall of famers, and they tuned him out the next season after their peak. I liked Hartley, but it does make sense if those are more so the reasons he got canned, rather than exclusively the performance of that final season.
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