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Originally Posted by Textcritic
It is hilarious simplistic to draw conclusions from each candidate's coaching record without the benefit of interviews and analyses. This is fine for fans, but I expect an NHL GM to perform a hell of a lot more due dilignece in making his coaching hire.
This is not my intention at all. I am only suggesting that we don't really have a good idea as to who the GM and his advisors consider to be the top candidates for the Flames head coaching job. In this vacuum of information it seems pretty presumptuous to think that Treliving's shortlist should look anything like ours.
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Your stance sure sounds a lot like appealing to authority. Seems like a dangerous game to play when having all these resources you put so much faith in have brought us such wisdom as the Brouwer and Raymond signings, Brandon Bollig, waiving Byron, hiring Gulutzan, etc. Treliving has made plenty of mistakes that many people here criticized and which turned out exactly as anticipated.
Sometimes conventional wisdom is conventional for a reason. I don't see a whole lot of evidence in Treliving's corner to suggest he has some higher plane of understanding that reveals Bill Peters is the best coach available. Literally the only reason I can see for hiring this man is that better coaches were not interested.