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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
I think you're looking at it the wrong way here.
It doesn't necessarily have to be a 'name'. On one hand it just has to be a body, because now Gelinas is down on the bench instead of the eye in the sky. They lost a coaching body and I don't think have replaced it (i'm not sure about that). That says to me, whether a name was available or not, the Flames didn't have anyone even as a candidate in a process.
For instance, this announcement isn't that Gallant has been fired. It's that him and another coach have been fired because the Knights have already hired his replacement. Nothing ambiguous about it, the Knights were actively recruiting DeBoer before this.
The Flames I don't think had any such intention which is why Ward is still the interim guy, and the flames are paying him more to be head coach.
So even if Toe Blake or Scotty Bowman were available, the Flames wouldn't be in that market, presumably because they don't want to pay the cost for a top tier coach anyway. So whether DeBoer/Gallant/Laviolette were available or not, the Flames weren't going to be crossing that bridge I don't think. In fact, I think if the peters allegations hadn't come out, they would've let Peters coach out the year even if the team was in danger of missing the playoffs.
That's just how things have rolled previously.
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Different circumstances for sure. Flames were forced to make a change. Vegas decided to make a change - so of course they were going to have a guy lined up.
And agree I think that they would have likely given Peters the season, and I would have been okay with that.
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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
Except Rick Bowness doesn't want to be a head coach, he's an *actual* interim coach, whereas Ward wants to be a head coach and his interim title has more to do with the Team than what Coach wants.
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I disagree about this though.
Bowness was talking about how he has interviewed for head coach jobs in recent seasons but hasn't been giving the opportunity since 15 years ago in Phoenix. And how he's so grateful for the opporunity to be head coach again.
Much like the Flames I don't think the Stars have brought in another coach yet either. Both these teams were forced to make a move they didn't want to make and now they are just assessing what they have here.