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Originally Posted by Ashasx
to be fair he had a much better team
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And he’s a much better coach.
Peters was a head coach for parts of 5 years. He missed the playoffs every year but one and got his doors blown off the one time he made it, and by the time the Aliu story broke, he had already lost the team and was two weeks from being fired anyway.
Hartley coached the Avs to four 1st place finishes. I know they are the Sakic/Forsberg/Roy Avs, but he still did that. He’s coached 95 playoff games with a .568 win percentage and a championship.
Hartley got the Atlanta Thrashers to the playoffs. Literally an impossible task for everyone else who tried.
Hartley won a 7-game series with the Calgary Flames without his Norris trophy favorite captain and Russell/Wideman playing 30 a night.
I don’t care if he’s an ####### or says one thing to the media and another behind closed doors - so does literally every coach ever.
He knows how to do the job and he belongs in the NHL. I can’t believe anyone would hold Jonas Hiller pulling the chute on his career and Karri Ramo’s shredded knee against Bob Hartley - what else was he supposed to wring out of that group?