...scored for Calgary, which led 1-0 after the opening period.The Sharks' win spoiled the debut of new Flames coach Bob Hartley.San Jose goaltender Antti Niemi made 31 saves for the win.

...2002-03: The team fires original coach Curt Fraser after winning just eight of 33 games to start its fourth season. Bob Hartley eventually takes over as coach.2003-04: Emerging star Dany Heatley is at the wheel during a high-speed car crash...

...the World Championship over Canada, but even that couldn't take away the sting of an NHL season gone terribly bad. Bob Hartley, who had coached the Thrashers to their first playoff berth the year before, was fired after an 0-6 start. Atlanta...

...interim coach Don Waddell are under pressure to make the playoffs. The Hawks last made the playoffs in 1999. Coach Bob Hartley led the Thrashers to their first playoff appearance last season, but they were swept in the first round by the New...

...its last 43 chances. ... Thrashers general manager Don Waddell is 12-7 since taking over as coach for the fired Bob Hartley. ... Lehtonen won his two AHL starts, posting a 1.93 goals-against average and a .934 save percentage...

...good shots, some of them are going to go in, regardless of who's in goal." After an 0-6 start which cost coach Bob Hartley his job, the Thrashers are 7-4 with Waddell, the general manager, behind the bench. The Hurricanes again made...

...scored for Atlanta, which improved to 7-3 under interim head coach Don Waddell after starting the season 0-6 under Bob Hartley. Bobby Holik had two assists. Nathan Horton scored for the Panthers. Tomas Vokoun, starting in net for the 10th...

...Thrashers improved to 4-2 under GM Don Waddell, who took over behind the bench on an interim basis after he fired coach Bob Hartley following an 0-6 start. PENGUINS 4, WILD 2 In St. Paul, Minn., Pittsburgh's young Penguins made quite a debut...

...regulation for the Thrashers (2-7), who are 2-1 since general manager Don Waddell took over as coach after he fired Bob Hartley. Mats Sundin, Hal Gill, Nik Antropov and Alex Ponikarovsky scored for Toronto (3-4-3). Not only did the Thrashers...

...New York Rangers. That flameout, filled with curious goaltending decisions, was the beginning of the end for coach Bob Hartley, who was dismissed this week after the Thrashers got off to an 0-6 start. As he did in 2002 after firing Curt Fraser...