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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
It's not like we're 5 games into a slide here, this has been going since the all star break.
Maybe it was the 4 months before the all star break where the team was playing 700 hockey that is the outlier here with this coach and not the 6 seasons of 500 hockey he has on the rest of his resume.
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You can't just exclude the best section of 40 games of a 105 game sample and say "Look he's not good enough" .
Under Hartley, Peters, & Gulutzan when the team was committed to working hard and sticking to the system they looked good.
When they played lazy and uninspired hockey because they were sad, or the coach was too mean, or too nice, or now too mean again, they have looked bad.
I think at this point moving at least one of Gaudreau, Monahan, or Backlund will probably be required to shake it up.
As a whole the Flames under Peters sit 5th in the NHL with 130 points, and a . 619 points percentage. That would be a very harsh firing IMO.
If you break up the Flames under Peters into 20 game segments
2018/2019:
Game 1-20: 11-8-1 > .575 points percentage
Game 21-40: 13-4-3 > .725 points percentage
Game 41-60: 13-4-3 > .725 points percentage
Game 61--82: 13-9-0 > .591 points percentage
2019-2020
Game 1-20: 10-7-3 > 0.575 points percentage
Game 21-23: 0-3-0 > 0.000 points percentage
Peters has not had a 20 game segment as this team's coach where he's under a .575 points percentage. That is a 94 point pace over a full season, which isn't great but is a pretty good as your worst quarter of a season in his time here.
This is on the players and maybe the GM for not doing more to make sure a change happened in the offseason - not the coaching staff.