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Originally Posted by GullFoss
I'm listening to the Elliott Friedman interview and he's basically saying Tre is likely to hire Peters because "(1) he likes him and (2) The prior relationship between the two means there's comfort and therefore Tre should hire who you know best, which is Peters"
How about instead, Tre and Burke do some ####ing research and get to know the top end coaches in AV and Sutter and see if perhaps they're better than Peters. You know how we know Sutter and AV are good - its because they've had incredible success with multiple teams.
The chain of logic Elliott is spouting to suggest Peters is beyond stupid. It's basically advocating Tre should look past the garbage track-record and lack of experience of Peters because he knows him. And it suggests Tre should basically discount the amazing track record and experience of AV and Sutter because he doesn't know them.
And if that's how the organization is thinking of this decision internally, it 100% explains the decades of garbage we've seen on the ice.
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Keep in mind you are listening to *Friedman’s* opinion of how he thinks Treliving is making the decision.
I think Friedman is just filling airtime. For Treliving not to carefully consider every valid option for a new coach goes against all of the decisions we’ve seen him make over his time as the Flames GM. Those decisions haven’t always worked out, but there has always been a thorough thought process behind them.
Until Treliving confirms that’s the key reason why he’s looking at Peters, I’m willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. I’m confident that if Peters becomes the next Flames coach, that there will be stronger reasoning for it than simply “because Treliving knows him better than the other candidates.”