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I think the message here is twofold:
1) Hiring a NHL coach is not like hiring personnel for practically any position any one of us is likely familiar with. Given the highly narrow specialization and the infinitesimally small pool of candidates the hiring process is almost certainly going to appear different from the outside. Also, I think it is pretty clear that not every situation will follow the same processes. Bill Peters was hired in a time-crunch, which helps to explain a lot about what happened this summer.
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That was a lot of words spent to say "It's okay that Brad Treliving failed to perform proper due diligence because Bill Peters had a limited time to exit his contrct."
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2) Without knowing any specifics about the hiring process it is probably not advisable to form very strong opinions about it. In this case it is a fact that there is more we don't know about the process behind Bill Peters's hire than what we know. Under these conditions it is understandable for people to be curious or puzzled, or to wonder about matters of thoroughness. However, a number of the assertions about what Treliving should have done; what he did or did not do are unjustifiably strong in the face of what has been publicly disclosed.
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Not really. The media may not always know how many potential coaches a GM interviews or seriously considers, but very rarely do they tell us that the pool was exactly one candidate. It's understandable when it's Toronto getting Mike Babcock. When it's a guy with no track record of success at this level, then yeah, people are going to view the decision skeptically. And like it or not, until Brad Treliving proves he was the smartest guy in the room, people have every right to question his decision making. Especially given his own pedestrian track record.
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Results will be the arbiter on the quality of Bill Peters's hire, but we won't know those for some time yet.
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When we say 'results', do we mean wins and losses or Corsi and high danger scoring chances?