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Originally Posted by kyuss275
Pretty much this. Other than some fluke comebacks in one year , his record as a flames coach was horrible. I have no doubt that if they kept Hartley on for last year that the team would have been bottom 5. Gully gets a lot of flack, but him trying to undo bad habbits from youngsters at beggingng of last year must have been tough.
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People seem to forget that you don’t need to make 11 come from behind victories if aren’t constantly trailing in games by playing bad
I’ll always remember and appreciate the playoff run, but that was a perfect storm of many factors, and they immediately regressed to picking Tkachuk the year after
As another poster said, maybe the best thing Hartley did here aside from hilarious one liners was put the flames in a position to draft high for 3 out of 4 years