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Originally Posted by Bingo
You didn't see an issue with Bob Hartley's performance?
Terrible underlying numbers, terrible standing in the league, and then a year end press conference suggesting they needed to block more shots.
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Oh Bob had definite performance issues. But he also could fall back on the spectacularly bad goaltending performance of Hiller (.879 sv%) and his 1st round playoff win the season prior. Gulutzan doesn't have any of that to fall back on.
Treliving fired Bob mainly because they didn't see eye to eye on playing style. I remember Bob's post season media presser where they asked Bob what the team needed to do to improve on this season and he said something to the effect of, "we need to block more shots and win more faceoffs."
Ha! I could only imagine in the mind of Treliving he must have instantly thought right there that he needed to get rid of this guy and hire a corsi and analytics based coach so that they wouldn't need to rely on shot blocking so much.