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Originally Posted by 868904
It is kind of funny and ironic that when Treliving hired GG, he said GG was the guy who would take this team to the next level and implied that Hartley wasn't.
Yet it is Hartley who has taken his teams and won at every single level he's coached at (QMJHL, AHL, NHL, Swiss) and GG has never done that. The fact is that Hartley has taken his teams to the top of every level.
Not that I disagreed with firing Hartley at the time, as I wasn't a fan of his rope-a-dope strategy, but in hindsight, maybe he knew better.
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Aside from Sutter, our two most successful coaches since 1989 have been a couple of way-past-their-prime washouts - Hartley and Keenan. Ironically, both were fired for "failing to reach next level" only to be followed by guys who did even worse.