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Originally Posted by dino7c
Flames didn't have bad goal tending the one year Hartley made the playoffs. Hiller was good and Ramo was better than the backups this season
Honestly Hartley sucked, so does GG though
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One wonders that if Hartley didn’t make the playoffs that year, if this team may be farther along overall. Hartley got an extension because of making that playoff run but Treliving would’ve preferred, as the new guy, to have cut ties with him, which was of course harder to do post playoff series victory.
But if Hartley didn’t make it, there was a different pool of recently fired coaches to choose from in summer 2015. Babcock (never going to get him), Bylsma, Julien, McLellan,Todd Richards, Tippett.
Question impossible to answer is if the playoff experience in 2015 (and failing then in 2016 to make the playoffs) was better for development of some of the players vs going through another year of Hartley only to miss the playoffs the next year (ie wasted) vs how they would’ve done in 2016 with a new coach.
And then if having that established, hand picked coach of the GM for 2015-16 would have brought a better executed and more continuitous plan that may have succeeded in getting the team to the playoffs in 2016...and potentially the team is leaps and bounds ahead because of which particular coach was available in 2015 and not available anymore in 2016 when BT chose GG. And of course the players on the roster now would have 3 seasons under that different coach now as part of that plan as opposed to flailing under GG this second season.