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Originally Posted by JohnnyB
There are 82 games in the season before the playoffs. During that season Hartley got the team playing the most exciting hockey I can remember this franchise producing in decades, before the playoffs even started. It ignited rejuvenated interest in the team.
What he was like in the room, I don't know, and it may be that he deserved the axe for it, but in an ocean of disappointing and often boring hockey over the last decades, that season was a refreshing gift of fun. As someone who watches hockey for entertainment, of course I'll remember that fondly.
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I’ve heard Treliving and Burke both describe that season as “winning the masters by sinking 18 forty foot putts”. It was not sustainable, and if anything it was a lot of luck in come backs.