Has there been a franchise worse than Calgary at picking coaches in the last decade, apart from the Oilers? A big red flag is looking at how many guys have never held a head coaching job in the NHL after a stint with Calgary, which is every one since Darryl Sutter. Treliving is just continuing this trend, hiring a completely unprepared rookie his first try, then going the other way and grabbing a hardass whose prior team hated him so much they went to the GM as a group to try to get him fired
In a sense Treliving is very lucky that his hand has been forced with regards to Peters, because if things hadn't come to light and he ended up firing him in the offseason after an abysmal season his head would have probably been next. He gets a third crack at hiring a head coach now, but I've got little optimism that he'll find the right guy after his first two spectacular failures
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