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Originally Posted by saillias
My hot take has always been the good year was also bad. They got shelled every game and were the worst team on the ice most nights. Their metrics were near the bottom of the league. They got very lucky with shooting percentages and goaltending. And then faced a very weak round 1 opponent.
It's been crazy to me how Hartley has maintained this sort of aura like he was good here. No he was really really bad. Worse than Gulutzan or Ward. not even referring to how he dealt with people. But by the numbers as a coach he is one of the worst of the salary cap era.
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It just proves how starved for success we are. That lucky year is (tied for) the furthest our team has been in the playoffs in the last 19 years. Hell we've only made it past the first round three times in 30 years.