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Peters was at his best when he wasn't satisfied and constantly tinkering and making tough decisions. As soon as he got the idea in his head about what the "right" lineup was, he changed his style. The guy willing to scratch Frolik and Stone early in the season took too long to identify what wasn't working in the cases of guys like Neal, Monahan, and Jankowski. In fact I'm not sure he even values speed at center which is kind of a fundamental tenet of championship teams. Contrast this with Tortorella, who at one point called out his center core with Dubois injured and said "we have no centers". Center is the most important position in ice hockey and Peters will need to rectify his approach to that next year. Even if it means a demotion for a star player to the wing.

My other disappointment with Peters is how much the team stopped skating with the puck as the year went along. A LOT of this series was typified by desperate whacks to enter or exit the zone, while Bednar had his Avs carrying the puck and rarely dumping it after game 1. Dump and chase can't be a primary style of play. It needs to be a last resort but by the end of the year the team was dumping and chasing at every opportunity.

I better see each and every one of Dube, Bennett, Czarnik tried at centre next year.