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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
Hartley's time with the Flames is romanticized because he got them to win a round, which is very rare around these parts, and always had a clever quip for the media.
But he was a bully and I don't have much time for people like that.
Doesn't mean Tre has made the right choices since. But just because he chose the wrong next coach, doesn't mean it wasn't the right decision to fire Hartley.
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Yeah, my thoughts as well. Which is why I hate the Peters hiring as much as I do. Just a garbage hire after a flawed hiring process - and looking beyond the Akim Aliu news, the players had pretty visibly quit on him to start this season - which is also why I understand Tree's stance of publicly backing the coach (prior to the Aliu news of course). He put it back on the players, which I agree with the idea of, although in this case it was a mistake because he backed a bad coach.
Gulutzan was a poor hire but I understand the rationale of switching gears to a "players coach" after Hartley, unfortunate that he was such an ineffective/poor head coach because he was a genuinely superb guy by the sounds of it (I've heard a few side stories from people who had dealings with him outside of the sport).
This next hiring is huge for Treliving. He has to get it right, and while Geoff Ward may be a great guy, I don't think he's made for the head coaching position (he's gone awfully late into his career before transitioning even to an interim title). Although, he is such a good guy that if we do go back with him I won't hate it so long as the roster has been we-worked hugely. This roster + Ward is a deal breaker for me.