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Originally Posted by Reign of Fire
This kinda logic always cracks me. Just cause some fans on here show their displeasure with the way things are going, doesn't make them any less of Flames fans. Many didn't like the Glutuzan hire and look how well that turned out. It upsets us when the team is being run into the ground and some of us are sick of "wait and see approach".
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Pretty much this.
Last summer it was made pretty clear that this was supposed to be our window. Playoffs were to be expected, 100 point season was the goal. Ton of draft picks sold. The rebuild is over, we're going for it. This was the message from management last summer, no two ways about it.
Then we get a terrible disappointment of a season. The least entertaining hockey the Flames have played possibly ever, and not even close to making the playoffs. 84 points is a complete disaster.
This was supposed to be the payoff for sticking with the team through all the bad years, and it was just a massive letdown.
I already consider not firing Gulutzan during the season a terrible non-decision by Treliving. You have to give the fans some reason to watch the games. Hiring Peters is just asking for too much faith. I am not interested in seeing what he brings. Maybe I'm wrong about that, but if there's just more disappointment behind every corner, at some point I have to decide that I'm just not going to wait and see.
There's nothing suggesting that Peters is a particularly good coach. He might be better than his record, but there is just nothing in his record to suggest he is. What we do know is that he employs mostly the same system as what Gulutzan used, a system people have learned to loathe. The system that produced what many considered to be the most unwatchable Flames hockey ever.
Maybe it will be different. Maybe he'll make some important changes. Maybe not. The mystery box could be anything. But right now the only positive thing about Peters I've read is that he's not literally Glen Gulutzan. That is just not a lot sunshine.
I'm already at a point where I've mostly given up on this team. I'm perfectly fine with someone not calling me a fan anymore. That's how fed up I am. Right now I'm just hoping that these Peters rumours are false, or that the reaction from the fans to the rumours make someone in the organization reconsider what they're doing.
I've already said it a few times, I've mostly given up on the team already. I really need something to renew my interest. Fair or not, rational or not, Bill Peters is definitely not it.