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Originally Posted by GioforPM
I think Hartley was a terrible coach and his rep here is based off of one season. But I could be wrong and I’d like to hear what Iginla, Stajan, Jaybo, Russell - vets who played elsewhere - have to say.
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Maybe but he was a motivator and had that team believing they could come back and beat anyone. There is no "Find A Way Flames or Cardiac Kids/ Vets or that type of swagger any more. Under Ward they come out flat like they had a flat of beer the day before the game, show up for a period or maybe two if we are lucky, and skate around like their feet are in mud every second game. The last game it looked like a team that smokes a pack a day versus Olympic Athletes with how slow they were on pucks and getting up the ice. They get bailed out by Markstrom and win games they have no business winning and are less than the sum of their parts when in the past they played way way above their heads and looked like the best conditioned team on the ice. There's things beyond X and Os I really really liked about Sutter and Hartley coached teams that Ward could learn.