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Originally Posted by Sylvanfan
Yeah, Hartley is the only Flames coach since the young guns days and Daryl's first full season who got to coach a team with no expectations of being at least a playoff team. When his teams had any expectation on them...they were bad. When there was no pressure like a lot of plucky underdogs they over achieved.
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Haha, oh man, this post made me laugh. As if it's the norm for the Flames to be a team of high expectations. The Flames consistently oscillate in a narrow band around mediocrity.
Peters is the only one to have had genuinely high expectations in the last decade, as the team was heading into the playoffs. That lasted all of five games before returning to the team's actual norm. I guess the Avs were just plucky underdogs? And, I guess the high expectations were actually, an excuse for failure?
Give me the coach who is capable of turning a team of mediocre talent into a bunch of entertaining, overachieving underdogs. Better than the coach who can't.