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"Robert Hartley" (born September 7, 1960) is the current head coach for the Calgary Flames in the National Hockey League. He coached the Colorado Avalanche from 1997–98 NHL season/1998–2002–03 NHL season/2002, period during which he won the Stanley Cup (2000–2001). He also coached the Atlanta Thrashers from the 2003–04 NHL season/2003 up until the beginning of the 2007–08 NHL season/2007, when he was fired after the Thrashers got off to an 0–6 start. Hartley was enjoying a successful media career as a hockey analyst for the French-language Réseau des Sports/RDS television channel, but in summer 2011 signed for the ZSC Lions, where he was the head coach in Zurich, Switzerland.

Hartley and his wife, Micheline, have one daughter, Kristine and one son, Steve.

Despite his anglophone-sounding name, Hartley is a Franco-Ontarian. French is his first language; his English has a marked French accent.

More Bob Hartley on Wikipedia.

There's never an easy loss, but I thought we started the game like we wanted to start. Unfortunately a couple of plays cost us the game. Buffalo is very confident right now and they take advantage of basically every one of their chances.

We have the same team that we did before. But the race is getting tougher and tougher. It's only January, but we're already looking at scores after the game to see who's losing and who's winning.

We don't focus on the little details. Right now we're squeezing, we're squeezing the stick. If we would get an early goal, but we think that by cheating we're going to get that early goal, but it doesn't work like this.

You don't play with a head injury. You can come back from a broken leg, but ... a head injury could cost a guy his career.

When you look at the standings, it's all jumbled up. There's still plenty of games. But you don't want to give up games that could come back to haunt you at the end of the year.

We don't focus on the little details. Right now, we're squeezing the stick. You can't expect to win like this.

It seems like every game, we have chances to get on the board first but we're not capitalizing. We're firing blanks right now.

Our best players are simply not our best players right now, it's as simple as this.

To represent your country is something you always dream of. He's good enough to play, but we see him in there every day working with the elastic bands, just trying to survive.