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Originally Posted by Jay Random
The two years before Carolina hired Peters, Staal scored 53 and 61 points. Peters did not magically cause a 70-point player to drop off the face of the earth. The drop-off was already happening.
Incidentally, if Peters is a bad coach because he only got 0.62 PPG out of Staal (87 points in 140 games), what does it say about Vigneault that he only got 0.3 PPG from the same player?
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In spite of those 53 points coming in 48 games. He was starting to drop off immediately after that. It wasn't directly him but it was overall team depth. He had the likes of Tlusty, Jussi Jokinen and Semin. That year he head 33 points in 63 games for Carolina he was traded to NYR at the deadline and had only 6 points in 20 games. There was no boost, there was only continued mediocrity. He had zero points in the playoffs. That year as a one off abysmal year.
He then signed in Minnesota and rebounded. Look at the depth on Minnesota. More offense spread around through better players. Of course a player like Eric Staal is going to do better when surrounded by better players.
I don't think you can point Staal's lack of production on coaching. The year Staal had 54 points during Peters' first year of coach the next highest scoring forward had only 39 points. Defensman, Faulk, had 49 points that year. The entire team lacked scoring, and they lacked top line players. That wasn't Peters' fault.
People shouldn't blame Peters on Staal's last two seasons in Carolina. They need to look at the entire situation.