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Originally Posted by Fighting Banana Slug
Flames/Hockey Canada/Carolina/... all could have done a decent job on their due diligence process and still not figured this one out. They don't speak to every player he ever coached for goodness sake.
Bill Peters was a good hire for the Flames at the time of his hiring. Now, it appears, it will be a good firing.
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This is where I think it's over-simplistic, wrong, and frankly, I think it's giving management an easy out. Statistically thinking, the general rule of thumb regarding sampling is the approximate number of 30 for a decent sample size. If you have a quick conversation with 30 random individuals of all types from someone's past (not just people who will confirm your beliefs), you should get a good understanding of if anyone is a good fit. It doesn't have to be long conversation, but it can be checklist type stuff, and noting how they're answering too. Anyway, nobody really calls 30 people up for a regular job, but for something as important as a coach it doesn't seem that crazy an idea.