No matter what happens, I'm very positive Bill Peters will be playing out the season, and likely at least given a shot next season to get off to a good start.
Flames ownership and Treliving are correct to stand by their guy at least for that amount of time. That's three coaches now under this core that after one bad season have been let go, so they need to act with the club's long term interests in mind. This core had a 107 pt season under this coach so it's not like he came in and neutered the team.
During the year Gulutzan got fired, we talked about going after Trotz, Vigneault, Boudreau etc etc. If Peters joins the pattern of Calgary coaches getting fired after one bad season following a good season and never seeing another head job in the show afterwards, then who the hell amongst the big names would want to actually come here to coach? It's a dubious body of work at this point.
Peters will be allowed to at least begin the season next year or this club might start having serious issues attracting legit head coaching talent if he gets canned earlier.
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