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Originally Posted by Bingo
I certainly don't mind the humour, and with Sutter's digs on Ward there is some truth to it too.
But why does every seem to just ignore Peters in this history? Was he a terrible coach? He won the division and then was fired the next season for reasons that had nothing to do with Treliving.
Gulutzan was good technically, but not a leader of men ... that's on Treliving.
I think Ward was the third choice.
But Peters wasn't a poor coaching hire if you don't have the benefit of knowing the skeletons in his closet.
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Peters was a terrible coach. 4 extremely mediocre years in Carolina and since he left they have become a top team in the league. Peters had the Flames playing well in 18/19 and did a horrendous job of getting them ready for the playoffs and as Zadorov quoted his team was extremely easy to play against. The next season the team is trending to miss the playoffs altogether until the whole Aliu thing breaks and gives the team no option but to make a change and they go on a great run likely thanks to the better atmosphere around the team without that horrible coach around anymore.
Peters was the definition of mediocre before he came here and outside of a couple of really good months were this team was winning basically every game they were mediocre under him. They started and ended that division winning season slow.
Lindholm gave Gaudreau and Monahan the boost they needed since Hudler was on their wing, and Gio was reborn being reunited with Brodie and not having to cover for Dougie like he did in years past that took away some of his offensive ability.