There are some good coaches still left on the board, and as much as I think this round is Hartley's to win, I went with Brian Sutter for sentimental reasons. There was a guy who was always squeezing lemonade out of a pretty big turd of a team. He never made the playoffs in his 3 years, but those were some of the hardest working teams of the 90s. Unfortunately the talent level (this was the Bure, Wilm, Wiemer, Shantz era) never matched the work ethic during his tenure. And up next came the disasters of Don Hay and Greg Gilbert which ruined any positives.
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