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Treliving let the dressing room dictate that Ward should stay because he wasn't mean and he let them play soccer in practice. His options were probably limited as well with an odd offseason last year, but likely knew Ward was not likely to finish out whatever contract they gave him because Ward wasn't going to get every last bead of sweat out of many of those guys.

But he went away from the "good cop" guys like Ward to hire Peters, because the dressing room ran over GG in season 2, but that option wasn't available. The mishandling of Game 6 Dallas should've been cause enough.

Bad move by BT, but his options were also limited as the clock ticked last offseason. I don't think Sutter was ready and any other options fizzled too, before they confirmed Ward as staying.

If Sutter was more ready, and started last season in charge, Flames in the playoffs last year and things would be a lot different right now.