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Originally Posted by Red
If Treliving were to do a pros and cons list, what would he put for Peters pros?
Cheaper?
In Sutter, AV and Peters you get:
Red and Yellow corvettes that won a couple races and came close other times versus a mystery car that has never been to the race.
A bit puzzled what bag of magic beans Peters is selling to Tre.
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Well the things that we
know we're getting from Peters are:
- High levels of discipline (which played a bigger part in the success of our 2015 team than puck luck did)
- A strong PK (CAR's PK has finished 4th, 6th, 6th, and 24th under him. Calgary's PK has finished 21st, 30th, 12th, 7th over the same span). Both Calgary's bad year and Peters' bad year were tied to significant goaltending issues.
- The above combination allowed CAR to be :
1st
1st
1st
5th
in PPGA in Carolina. While Calgary was:
4th
27th
22nd
14th
- A strong possession game (whether you think that matters or not after the Gulutzan debacle, it's regardless a selling a point for any NHL coach)
I don't know what else he is selling. I'm hardly sold on him. But I will say that he's a far more revered candidate than Gulutzan ever was.
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Originally Posted by DeluxeMoustache
Why is Peters not a magic can of beans to everyone including the GM ?
The expectation must be that given a NHL roster that he can improve their play get them to the playoffs (and presumably do better than that).
Has he ever won a playoff game? No.
Has he ever made the playoffs? No.
Can he? Who knows.
There is no proof that he can do it. Only extrapolation, hand waving and hope.
If it walks like magic beans, and quacks like magic beans, it is magic beans, is it not?
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I mean, Randy Carlyle just got swept and he's won a playoff game, made the playoffs, won a cup, etc.