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Originally Posted by btimbit
Are there any reasons for disliking a Peters hire or is it just that he hasn't won any cups?
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He has only had one successful season as a head coach and that was a decade ago in the WHL.
In the 10 years since, he has 3 years as an AHL head coach, 3 years as an NHL assistant, and 4 years as an NHL head coach. In those 10 seasons, his teams have advanced past the first round of the playoffs once (2013 as an assistant in Detroit), and missed the playoffs 5 times (including each of his four seasons as the head coach in Carolina).
The Hurricanes are one of only 3 teams in the NHL to have missed the playoffs in each of the last four seasons (Arizona and Buffalo being the others). They really didn't progress at all under Peters' watch.
I don't put a lot of faith in a coach's success in international tournaments. They're so short and the players have such little pre-tournament time to practice together, that I don't believe a coach can really impact things as much as they can over a long season.
Also, we've seen coaches come through Calgary with Memorial Cups and World Jr Gold medals on their resume who weren't able to get the job done in the NHL.
It seems to me that the selling points for Peters are very similar to what we heard about Gulutzan. Maybe what this team needs is the same message from a different messenger, but I worry it will just be the same #### in a different pile.