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The continual "this core has been through 4 coaches and nothing" argument isn't factual. Bill Peters developed a system, preached it, demanded buy in.

When there was buy in and it was proven the system worked, which gave the team confidence that the coach new what he was doing. And, when the in game tactics requires changing, or a push, he could deliver handle that, and again, the team is successful and the players can be confident that the plan works and continue to go along with that plan.

All that meant is that the coach proved that he knew what he was doing and he knew what each player should be doing, and his tactics and game plan worked. He made your hockey life miserable if you didn't execute, but if it meant winning games, the players continued to buy in and players like winning as opposed to losing.

If you didn't buy in, there were consequences immediately. But players knew thier role and their role was just to execute and didn't have any ambiguity or uncertainess of what they had to do each of their shifts on the ice or role on the team.

Peters and the Flames rolled with that, consistently, over 82 games, to finish 2nd in the league with this same core but a less overall talented team.