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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
If it’s not sustainable and not replicable, then the team itself overachieved. Being more than the sum of your parts is a hallmark of good coaching.
Hartley’s points percentage with the Thrashers for four seasons:
.564
.476
.549
.591
Bob won 40+ games his last two seasons. I can’t stress enough, the Atlanta Thrashers were never good. They bled talent and relocated to Winnipeg. That’s how well run that team was.
Calgary points %:
.438 - last year of Iggy and Kipper - Kipper missed major time, Iggy and Bouw were traded.
.470 - has Johnny for 1 game, rookie Monahan, goalies are Ramo, Joey MacDonald and the Berracade
.591 - first year he has a quasi-real lineup, and he makes the playoffs.
.470 - he deserved better this year - the goaltending was appalling, they started with the 3-headed monster, Hiller quit, Ramo got hurt, they had Old Man Nik Backstrom getting starts at the end of that year.
Who can overcome that?
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His .438 team he still had, aside from Jaybo and Iginla, guys like Cammi, Tanguay, Glencross, Stempniak, Hudler, Stajan, Backlund, Wideman, Gio, and Brodie. Not a good team, but .438 is horrific. That team is better overall on paper than his 14-15 team, IMO.
Atlanta was OOP for all but one year and that year they finished first and then dropped 4 straight to a mediocre NYR. And don’t we always complain about PO performances here? Then he got fired after 6 games the next year.
Hartley’s big claim to fame around here is, at the end of the day, winning 3 more PO games than Ward. And that’s if you don’t count the play-in (which sure felt like PO games to me). And the team that Ward lost to went to the finals, so there’s that.
If Hartley was a good NHL coach, he’d be in the NHL. Heck, if he was good, it wouldn’t have taken him as long as it did to get hired after Atlanta. Only Jay Feaster would even talk to him.