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Originally Posted by The Boy Wonder
Did you even read his post?
He basically said that goals against is a product of both defensive play AND quality of goaltending.
The reason Hartley was canned more than anything, and there are lots of sources that prove this, including the morning show at least once a week is that Hartley was an ####### and a jerk of a human being.
Imagine how bad those Hartley teams would’ve been if GG was coaching them instead... we’d probably have Austin Matthews AND Mcdavid
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He also provided a lot of points that I was disputing. Blaming Hiller and talent discrepancy are were not valid excuses because 90% of the players were the same. The fact that you think the 15-16 team is so much different from the 16-17 team is ridiculous to me. Hartley's defensive system was just not good enough and in his final press conference, his comment that the team needed to block more shots in order to be better was another fail to a GM like Treliving.
Hartley was definitely a jerk and ran the players through the gauntlet, but it's also the reason why I said that the goals allowed was "partly" why he was canned. There were obviously other reasons. But yeah, I 100% disagree with you that GG would've have had this team around dead last at any point during Hartley's tenure, he's a better coach.