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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
I have an open mind on Peters and really hope he'll be good but IMO you are understating the elephant in the room. Junior success and WHC success pale in comparison to zero for 4 in making the NHL playoffs. It's not that he hasn't had a lot of NHL success He hasn't had any in four seasons as a head coach. That is going to be the talking point until he gets a team into the playoffs.
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Junior success is a springboard ... agreed.
But WHC head coaching jobs are given out on merit, it doesn't mean they are correct in how they are assessing merit, but merit nonetheless.
Getting to be one of the guys at the World Cup is pretty huge though, unless you think Babcock is the kind of guy that doesn't have the self confidence to be at a big tournament without his buddy around.