[POLL] Calgary Flames coaching change mega-thread—with poll

[Bandwagon Surfer]

Now lets trade all the players. Las Vegas is the building model to emulate now. Build a whole new team along with the coaching staff. Give them maximum ability to form a cohesive unit by eliminating everyone who can feel like they have been here before.

[Textcritic]

Originally Posted by the_only_turek_fan

Bill Peters is going to be worst.

Worst than this sentence?

[Textcritic]

Originally Posted by kukkudo

Treliving is gonna go from hiring one dud to hiring another dud.

That's good to know. Thanks for sharing.

[Erick Estrada]

In a perfect world Gulutzan would have been an assistant coach for the Flames under a coach with a proven track record like when he worked under Torts in Vancouver. Seems like the perfect buffer between the players and a head coach. I wish him the best of luck and hope to see him back in the NHL in the future.

[nik-]

+1 grammar point for textcritic

[the2bears]

Originally Posted by Textcritic

Worst than this sentence?

Worster.

[Caged Great]

It simply had to be done. Someone has to be accountable. You can't trade 20 guys. You can fire the coach.

They need someone to kick the players in their rear end in order to get them going. An assertive coach who knows how to manage players is in order.

Sutter would be the perfect coach in my opinion.

[IliketoPuck]

https://forum.calgarypuck.com/showpo...&postcount=366

https://forum.calgarypuck.com/showpo...&postcount=801

From last year's game three loss thread.

It's about time ol' Glue Gun got shown the door.

Wish him all the best, and appreciate all his efforts. But it just wasn't working in Calgary, and a change needed to be made.

[Mathgod]

A year too late. Gully is a great person but I never got the sense that he got the most out of his players (with the exception of a handful of games after his stick toss).

[kukkudo]

Originally Posted by Textcritic

That's good to know. Thanks for sharing.

Anytime bud! If Peters is named the coach this Friday Im assuming you're gonna be all excited.

[FanIn80]

WOOOOWOWOOOOOOWOWOWOOWOOWOOWOOOOO!

(Translation: "whew!" but with way more excitement.)

[flames_fan_down_under]

Likely the end of the road for GG and his NHL head coaching career.

By all accounts Glen is a really good guy who is well liked within the NHL circle, who also represented the Flames organization with class, especially with his latest move heading to Humboldt and lending support.

However he is just not a quality NHL head coach.

[Saint Troy]

Several months too late, Darryl please.

[transplant99]

[Textcritic]

Originally Posted by nik-

+1 grammar point for textcritic

I have all the grammar points.

[CaptainCrunch]

I won't gloat or celebrate at a man losing his job. I still wanted to punch Pollock in the face when he basically jumped Greg Gilbert in the airport with a poop eating grin on his face after Gilbert was fired.

On a professional side I think that GG wasn't ready for head coaching for this team at this time, and there wasn't a good support system of assistant coaches.

Best of luck to GG and DC et al in their future careers.

But this is only part of the fix, now we need a coach that can deal with a team that seems to have characters/chemistry problems.

Bring in the coach bot 3000 with shock arms.

[Bingo]

Originally Posted by nik-

I think the key is to stop saying deep dive as a counter to people who are frustrated and annoyed with this staff. No one cares about some mystery stat that ignores the results at this point. People are tired of it.

People want goals, and wins and a coach that can motivate a team and have them ready to play. Like it or not, pros or not, getting a team ready to go is part of the coach's job.

A lot of people are bored of deep diving stats that fly in the face of what really matters, and what they're seeing when they watch these boring games. They might have been interested in that three months ago, but it's over.

I'm not sure I said deep dive at any point today to be honest.

Additionally you won't see me telling people that what they see isn't valid, or that their opinions are wrong.

But aren't you basically saying there are people that have their minds made up and I should stay out of their way and stop arguing with them? Because honestly if saying things should be looked into shouldn't cause this level of anger in my mind.

[SportsJunky]

Originally Posted by Otto-matic

Please be AV, Trotz or Sutter. No out of the box thinking on this one.

Trotz? No thanks.

[nik-]

Originally Posted by Caged Great

It simply had to be done. Someone has to be accountable. You can't trade 20 guys. You can fire the coach.

They need someone to kick the players in their rear end in order to get them going. An assertive coach who knows how to manage players is in order.

Sutter would be the perfect coach in my opinion.

Guys will be moved too, because the roster still has problems.

The shame is that this wasn't done earlier, so Treliving could see the players for a stretch under a different coach. Now he's either going to trade on faith that yes, the player actually is a problem, or wait to trade after he sees them under a new staff but while being harder to trade during the season.

This delay is costly.

[getbak]

Originally Posted by Otto-matic

I don't know what Siagalet or Gelly has on BT.

I would have cleaned the entire house.

Gelinas gets to survive one coach's firing for every elimination goal he scored.