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Originally Posted by Bingo
I'm always amazed how much Hartley is romanticized in this city.
He was pretty much pulled off the scrap heap to coach in an era where they had no expectations.
I appreciated his play with the media, and the fact the team worked hard but they were massively overplayed through his entire tenure.
Even the playoffs series against Vancouver, which was the best draw a 2nd place team could get in my memory wasn't a concise Flames win.
in that series the Flames had 45% of the shot attempts (five on five), 47% of the xGF%, and 48% of the high danger chances. They were ... out played.
He got the result, and you can't take that away from him, but not so sure it was exemplary coaching. If Vancouver got any goaltending in that series it has a different out come.
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All due respect to Bob, but he was an AWFUL strategic coach. He was brought in to instill work ethic into a rebuilding, young team. That's it. His solution to every problem was "work harder." He was a stupendously bad strategic mind whose results were bolstered by a white-hot PDO run (everything went in!) and a lucky match-up against a deficient Vancouver team in the playoffs.
Gulutzan was brought in to add strategy and philosophy to a hard-working team.