So you go down to 20, life is pretty easy. In the NHL, that respect means a willingness to listen to what his players have to say. He may not agree with it all the time, but he's happy to discuss it with you and the other coaches. You don't usually see that in coaches. It's usually, 'This is what I'm doing.
Coaches are creatures of habit.
They're going to do the same thing all the time, maybe try to adjust within it but not change the system. I think with Bob, we changed our system a little bit. That change came in the Western Conference semifinals, when the top-seeded Avalanche were pushed to a decisive seventh game by the Los Angeles Kings. Perhaps out of necessity, Hartley made another change. After relying on three lines against the Kings, he decided to use four against the St. Louis Blues in the conference finals.