Peters won the West last season and was a coach of the year finalist, I'd consider that a success. Sustained......no, but when the players bought in and played with some intensity they were a pretty good team. But they quit on him too, just like they haven't given a damn consistently under the current coach.
It's an apple and cart argument........do you hire, yet another, coach and hope that a new voice and system wakes these guys up, or do you change the players up (and still possibly hire a new coach as well)? I'm in the latter group. It's not a systems thing to slowly skate back to the bench, or give the puck away, or lose puck battles.....these are all simple basic hockey plays we should be seeing every night.
That's why my blame on Ward is around 0%. If the players were putting in the effort they could, and should, put in and the team was still struggling I'd be more inclined to see a new coach and system. These guys have been consistently inconsistent for about a year now, under two different coaches. I'm just done with waiting for guys like JG to put in the most basic of efforts. Combine that with Treliving saying he was giving this group one more shot this year after the debacle in the playoffs and I think we're going to see some major changes in the summer, including a new coach. It's overdue and the players have brought this on themselves.
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