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Originally Posted by Classic_Sniper
There’s a lot of confusion with Bill Peters around here. His team struck gold back in 2018-19 but was easily figured out in the playoffs and then started the 19-20 season 12-12-4. Geoff Ward helped save the 2019-20 and then lead his team to an equally bad start of 11-11-2 this season. It’s actually kind of interesting how both starts of this season and last season mirror each other. Both teams had trouble scoring too.
If we can rely on this team/core to do anything, it’s to lose in the first round or get the next coach fired. Those are the patterns that I’ve seen.
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I don’t think there is any confusion with Bill Peters. He’s a Babcock acolyte who commodifies and uses people. He obviously isn’t as calculative as Babcock or he would have had more success.
Both of them have warped concepts of sports psychology and believe the end justifies the means. That works in the short term.
What no one talks about in the playoffs in 2019 that sunk the Flames was mindset. When Johnny couldn’t get a call he would look at the refs. That would only make things worse.
It is little things like that where coaching can make a difference. Don’t whine about calls/non-calls. Don’t embarrass the ref. The games are more physical and it’s called different. Deal with it.
Whatever Peters said to them at that point wasn’t enough, the right approach, or he didn’t have enough rapport with the players to get buy in.
Darryl approaches coaching a team more like Hartley. Hartley thought of it as a family, but I think Darryl is more intelligent and approaches coaching a hockey team like a family farm.
There is a list of duties, an order to the operations that is required to complete those chores, and a window of opportunity in which those chores can be completed. Adversity is automatic and a part of the game. Use it to be better.