Quote:
Originally Posted by Jay Random
Ward was hired as an assistant, which was the proper place to slot him. He would never have been made head coach even temporarily if the Peters thing hadn't blown up the way it did.
I have a sneaking suspicion that Ward was only re-upped at the beginning of last season because the Flames were trying to bring in Sutter and he wasn't ready to say yes yet.
|
Speculation about waiting for Sutter aside, they had a poor promotion that they rode out for the entire rest of the season and then re-upped him to the team's detriment. Not sure why the pushback on suggesting Ward was part of the coaching hire failures of this franchise the past few years when he clearly was.
I mean if they promoted him out of desperation and then cut ties in the off season then I'd maybe not count it, but that's not what they did.