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Originally Posted by Flash Walken

Actually, small disagreement. He specifically mentioned talking to bills previous employers which I thought was surprising. I believe he also specifically mentioned the canes but might have misheard or am mistaken.

One thing he didn't mention? Talking to any players, which looks to be the obvious glaring oversight and I think now probably a source of professional embarrassment. Maybe it was an accidental immission, but if I was looking to provide a bit of absolution for a problematic hire, that would be very high on my list of things to say.

Maybe he didn't talk to any players. Maybe he did and they said Peter's was fine. Maybe he did and the players said he wasn't fine and Treliving didn't care. Everyone hates a former boss. But not caring what the players think is a huge part of the culture needing change.

You'll be damn sure he cares now.

THE problem didn't happen in the flames organization, but a player agent literally accused Peters, in public of 'trying to run' his client 'out of town', and a prominent free agent signing was traded his first year into a 5 year deal after a public dispute with the same coach. I don't think we can credibly speculate there were no issues with Peters in the flames locker room in terms of bullying or abuse.


This is the culture change discussion in it's basic essence, and because I've never played pro or semi pro, it's difficult for me to weigh in definitively.

Commodore was on today (or maybe yesterday) indicating that he never, ever was asked about a coach in terms of reference checks. I don't know if he is the exception, but my guess is that talking to players is not something that is normally done, except perhaps those that played under that coach who are already in the Flames organization. I just don't see any plausible scenario that this issue would come to light, even if many players were interviewed. It might have taken an interview with Aliu himself before this could have been known.