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Originally Posted by Textcritic
It seems most plausible. This team went from the #2 highest scoring team with 190 goals in 51 games; to fourteenth with 99 goals in 31 games; to 27th with 64 in 27—all with virtually the same group of players intact. That's a fall from 3.7 G/GP to 2.37.
It has been obvious that something is very wrong, and has been getting progressively worse. If not the abusive and demoralizing coach, then what?
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This is pure speculation. As far as we know, it's just as possible that Peters had an anomalously great start because he was so much better liked by the players than Gulutzan, but as time went by, the high slowly went away and revealed a below average coach.
That said, it doesn't seem like anyone is feeling very sorry for Peters. Even Ward kind of stepped around a direct question of "do you feel for his situation" in a way which to me spelled out "not really no".
The way I look at these things is that the storylines are almost never simple and straightforward. Even if he was a total d-bag it's not likely the whole story.