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Originally Posted by ComixZone
Tough to say, as I’m definitely not familiar with what the hiring practices are like.
I imagine it broke down in one of a few ways:
- He didn’t do enough due diligence on the hire (reference checks, I suppose - whatever the equivalent is for NHL head coaching hires), because I feel like it’d be quite difficult for the Hurricanes to cover-up the issues entirely
- He did discover some concerns, but he made a judgement that they weren’t a huge concern (not speaking specifically to the racist allegations, more so the player issues in Carolina)
- He didn’t do any due diligence and made the judgement call based on his own personal opinion of Peters
I think all 3 scenarios reflect poorly on Treliving, and whatever his hiring process is.
It’s three garbage coach hires in a row in slightly more than 4 years (June 2016 - September 2020). That’s just ugly work.
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I would hazard to say that no GM would have discovered some incident that happened 20 years before, and three teams before (and a minor league team at that). If he could have, why didn’t Detroit or Carolina?
As for the Carolina allegations, apparently they weren’t enough for Francis to fire him, and no one seems to think Francis is incompetent.