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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
It feels rather gross to be pining over Bill Peters. Yes that a fabulous regular season under him, but I also remember:
They tailed off considerably after the all star game.
They were absolutely steamrollered in the playoffs by a team that lost in the next round. I'd say the Flames performed better in the playoffs vs Dallas under Ward.
They were 12-12-4 under him the next season. We'll never know if they would have turned things around but I saw plenty of signs that team was utterly disinterested in playing for him.
My conclusions from this are that the Flames are simply not as good as their 2018-19 regular season record would indicate. Even bad teams have good stretches and that was a decent team having an extended great stretch. Peters deserves credit as clearly the new voice and change in approach had a positive effect. But IMO it was not sustainable.
When it comes to coaches, maybe it's time we stop putting them in one of two buckets. The hard coach or the players coach. Maybe in fact there's a lot more nuance to a coach's approach than that.
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Not pining over Peters.
The point is that this team and this core, with the right system to make full use of their talents, implemented through someone who makes sure that his system is successful because it is 100% bought into via discipline/fear/keep players on edge/whatever, can get and has gotten results with the core of this team, 2 short years ago.