This won't be a popular opinion, but if the Flames fire Peters, which I don't they they should (yet), I would hope they hire Bruce Boudreau (assuming he is fired by the Wild at some point).
Boudreau has an extremely consistent record of making the playoffs with several different teams. At this point, I just want consistency from a year-to-year basis. Has Boudreau ever made it to the finals? No, but he has made it past round 1 many times, and that's more than we can say about the Flames.
He's second among active NHL coaches in career win percentage (among coaches with over 200 games coached). A career 63.6% over almost 1000 games is extremely impressive.
I'm just tired of the Flames hiring:
a) Young and unproven coaches
b) Older coaches without a track record of making the playoffs
Just hire a guy with an impressive resume. Maybe then the players will actually have some respect for the system.
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