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Originally Posted by Textcritic
This is false, revisionist history. Treliving conducted an extensive coaching search leading up to his first hire, and it resulted in Gulutzan. One could argue that that search also produced Ward, since he was short-listed and interviewed by the Flames for their HC vacancy back in 2016.
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Agreed on the first part, but honestly, trying to give Treliving double credit for a search on the Peters hire is also an attempt at revising history.
It's fair to say that Treliving identified Peters as a good candidate with the first search and used that belief for his second hire - but three years later, the entire market would have changed. So making no effort whatsoever to consider options is a black mark on his record. It felt lazy at the time, and Treliving is very fortunate that it worked last year. I don't see him getting the long term extension he got without that.