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Monday, October 29, 2012

{allcanada} HARTLEY WORKS ON FLAMES' COACHING CHEMISTRY

The New York Times takes a look across the NHL coaching landscape to find out what a number of bench bosses are doing to keep busy during the extended lockout.

Bob Hartley, who became the Calgary Flames' coach in May, said he conducts a meeting with his staff each morning. He said he had talked to each of his 15 veterans twice before the lockout and that he devised a plan for a brief training camp in case of a labor agreement.

Besides spending a week at the training camp of the Abbotsford Heat, the Flames' A.H.L. affiliate in British Columbia, Hartley took his staff and the Heat coaches to a retreat in Victoria, B.C.

"For us, it is important to create a chemistry between ourselves," Hartley said in a telephone interview. "That's the situation we're facing. We're not in this business to try to make excuses. We try to find solutions."

Hartley also said, "When you work in an N.H.L. community, it's your role to get involved with the community."