I'm not going to judge him or cry about this hire until I see how this team works in training camp, who comes out of training camp, what our roster looks like and how the team looks after 20 games.
Frankly he was stuck with an awful budget hamstrung team with terrible goaltending.
A big part of this whole equation is how he deals with the leadership element of this team and the group of players that didn't give a good effort this year.
However its clear that they wanted a coach with a bigger bite and if Peter's is hired that his guy.
sitting here and talking about another year without playoffs and the failure of this move without even seeing day one of training camp just comes off as silly.
don't be excited about it, nobody is, but at the end of the day, we don't know what we don't know.
Plus I'm still convinced that the Flames owners have put a cap on hiring a 5 or 4 million dollar a coach year with the arena uncertainty. Hiring a new coach isn't going to bump this teams revenue as I'm sure the owners are smart enough to know that raising ticket prices is probably a no go.
I'm also sure that they know that no matter who they hired as a coach they're going to lose revenue, so why over spend.
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