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Originally Posted by TheSquatch
So I mean, okay, but... Peters had all summer to cook up a new game plan, and absolutely no one here or anywhere else can identify it, has seen a sniff of it, and the Flames got absolutely smacked by the Avs in game 1, as though no time had passed. He clearly didn't offer a solution that the players could avail themselves of.
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At the same point though, Treliving had all summer to address the holes in the roster and failed to do that. He tried, he failed.
Coaches generally don’t change systems, and they definitely don’t after 50 win seasons. How the coach would view it is that the team executed his system for 50 wins, and didn’t execute it properly in the other games - so he has to work harder to get the team to execute it properly more often. I doubt Peters went into the summer believing he had failed from a systems perspective. It’s also why we still have the absolute joke of a PP strategy, the players just didn’t execute it properly.
Now, if you want to question whether his system is junk or not, that’s fair - although, again - it worked for 50 wins.
When Tree came out and said he’s been horse%#^*, he actually has been horse%#^*. This teams issues are more related to roster construction than anything else in my eyes. Too many holes in the roster that required too many players to play above a sustainable level for it to work long term. The fact that we came back with the same flawed roster is on Tree and Tree alone.
The solution is hard though, because one doesn’t simply find top end centres or top end scoring wingers. Especially in a market like Calgary, where you generally have to draft them to get them during the prime years...and I think that’s my biggest point of criticism with Tree. He rushed things. The Hamonic trade, the wasted assets on the likes of Elliott and Lazar...it all adds up, and the end state of this roster is that it is structurally flawed, and on top of that organizational depth is extremely lacking.