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Originally Posted by transplant99
I get people are angry but this hyperbole has to stop....be rational.
Tre has hired 2 Head Coaches.
Gulutzan and Peters.
Ward was promoted from within in the middle of a season when Peters actions from 10 years ago made him unemployable. If you want to count that as a hire...fill your boots but his choices were extremely limited with all other NHL head coaching candidates in the middle of their seasons elsewhere.
Many GMs get 3 hires, and some even more.
Go to town on him for his FA signings and whatnot, but this narrative is just patently untrue.
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Yeah I get frustrated that people keep saying that Ward was a hire, or some new addition to the coaching staff.
The coaching staff this season and playoff is the same coaching staff as the last playoffs and season.
This was the same group of coaches that led this team over the last 24 months, and really it was the same group even with Peters out of the picture.
Assistant coaches rarely get promoted to the head coach job when the head coach is fired for a reason - it's still the same staff and the message being sent to the players doesn't really change.
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Originally Posted by ComixZone
He wasn't well thought of. He was hated in Carolina and the Hurricanes were happy to see him go. The then GM even suppressed his coaching antics.
Bill Peters also got smoked in the playoffs.
Bill Peters was a bad coach and an embarrassment to this organization.
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It appears he was a horrible person, and if Treliving knew of Peters behaviour in his prior organization and decided to hire him anyways then he deserves to be fired anyways.
But it's not like Treliving went off the grid to hire some unknown. He was a well regarded member of Babcock's staff, had NHL coaching experience (where the biggest issue in Carolina was they didn't get a save), and had been employed by Hockey Canada on 6 separate occasions, including the World Cup of Hockey tournament.
And he appeared to be a great coach for about 50 games last year, and led the franchise to their best regular season finish in 30 years. Then he in-explicitly decided to change the style and structure this team was playing coming out of the week long break last year and the team never got that mojo back.
In the end Treliving still has to wear that mistake because maybe more due diligence would have uncovered the sins of Peters past, but hockey canada employed the guy too, so more than one group seemed to miss the character issues.