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Originally Posted by DeluxeMoustache
^ @powderjunkie, I’ve had to let people move on as well. They didn’t leave thinking we were on the same page. Now *that* was a process
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Fair enough. All hockey coaches know that 95% of them end up getting fired sooner or later, even Scotty Bowman. Trotz is the one guy that comes to mind where he simply finished his contracts in both NAS and WAS.
It's also a 'seasonal' job. In the real world, there are times when you might let a guy who's not really working out ride out the last few weeks of service (without rocking the boat) and then not bring him back. Maybe the firing was handled well, maybe it wasn't.
Plenty of evidence that there was a darkside to Hartley. Doesn't mean he didn't have great qualities, too. Maybe there's an alternate universe where keeping him for another season or two works out better, maybe it doesn't.