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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
You guys honestly don’t think this sort of stuff is a secret? That these guys don’t have these conversations? Don’t go to clinics with each other and run in similar circles and that any of this is a closely guarded secret?
Again, it’s not an interview where these things are a surprise. How many people here know how Daryl works the media after a big win and after a big loss? How many here know how Daryl runs his team, how he sets them up for success?
If you’ve been paying attention, I’m betting a lot, and that’s from the perspective of a fan. Now imagine being in a league for 10 years where he’s one of the 30 guys doing a job. You don’t think you’d get an even better perspective?
Like, I get maybe there will be some high level platitude you might learn, but the grits and gravy is laid bare, these aren’t mystery boxes.
Again, I get it if we’re talking about a coach who is coming in from college or junior or the AHL, sure, but history is littered with coaches coming in without a big interview process, because most GMs know what they’re building, have an idea of what they need to support that, and go out and get it. If that don’t think the 95% of what they know about a guy is a fit, they’re not going to sit down to clear up the 5%.
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Fine. Whatever.
I see it differently. At the NHL level you are dealing with a lot of different personalities, egos, etc. Being able to get them on the same page and performing at their best is not simple, it is quite involved. Every team is different and every coach is different. And just because he may have talked to or heard about how guys coach, he doesn’t have the insight you would get from seeing their work every day.
I think it is absurd to think you can’t learn something from a guy by having a detailed, focused conversation with him.
Frankly, I think there are other things that were factors for Treliving as well.
Either way, he hired the guy he wanted. Decisively and unapologetically.
And if Peters does not succeed, both heads should roll.
And if I was an owner, my window for him would be one (1) year. No playoffs, no job.