[News] Flames hire Bill Peters as the franchise's 19th head coach

[DazzlinDino]

Originally Posted by Reign of Fire

To top things off, it's rumoured to be a four-year contract...Tre playing it safe by ensuring that with the term, the owners may hesitate to can the new coach.

With that term and poor results we could start to see players being moved.

[Brick]

Hopefully, the owners intervene and clean house before another season is wasted.

[Inferno]

Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger

Sounds legit.

Yeah, that's why I never bothered posting it on here.

[Reign of Fire]

Originally Posted by Toonage

This is the first I've heard the term attached to the (soon to be) hire. Where did you hear that?

Saw it on Twitter, not sure on the reliability of the source. Search #Flames

[Toonage]

Originally Posted by Inferno

Some guy on Twitter said he has a source who told him about the Jagr and Foo signings and he was told it was four years. He said it would be announced in 24-48 hours.

I guess we'll see but I can tell you this. They nailed the 24-48 window.

[Cecil Terwilliger]

Originally Posted by Brick

Hopefully, the owners intervene and clean house before another season is wasted.

Because if there’s one sure sign of a successful organization, it’s meddling owners.

[Stay Golden]

I wish Joel Q was made available so we will all get super jacked up & then we watch Bradley quickly pass over him. Not even interview him. Then everyone can realize he really is not that sharp of a GM.

[blender]

One thing that occurred to me is that if indeed Peters is the man, it fits with the MO of playing a specific style. Regardless of what we think is right, a Peters hiring would indicate a desire from Treliving to stick with the system he has identified as desirable.
One positive aspect is that there have been times the last 2 seasons where the Flames have looked very good. If Peters is able to make a few adjustments such as activating the D more often, improve special teams and instill a will to win and consistent level of effort and execution we could see a very successful team next season.
If not, I agree that Treliving will likely walk the plank.
Regardless, to me, a Peters hire would indicate that Treliving is staying the course and I have to respect that even if I don't necessarily agree with it.

[kyuss275]

Originally Posted by Brick

Hopefully, the owners intervene and clean house before another season is wasted.

If anything they are the reason we are settling on Peters. They haven't liked to pay for coaching in the past and it looks like they still don't .

[Reign of Fire]

Originally Posted by Stay Golden

I wish Joel Q was made available so we will all get super jacked up & then we watch Bradley quickly pass over him. Not even interview him. Then everyone can realize he really is not that sharp of a GM.

I think some people are starting to see it now. I don't understand why he spent 15 minutes holding a press conference where he talked about the "process" and feeding horse to fans when he already decided on his next coach. He didn't even bother to give the illusion of the doing his due diligence on the search. Nothing more dangerous than a guy that thinks he is smarter than everyone else.

[MisterJoji]

Was hoping for Tippett, AV, Sutter or one of the more established guys but as a fan of the team, I’ll get behind the hire until it proves to be a problem. I mentioned in another thread that Jack Adams front runner Gerard Gallant was a bad coach until he wasn’t. He didn’t coach Columbus to within even a sniff of the playoffs for 2+ years, then surprisingly took the Panthers to the playoffs although they were upset. Now he’s coaching an expansion team that is a legit Stanley Cup contender. Let’s hope Bill Peters has a similar progression. It’ll be very interesting to see who will be hired for each assistant position.

[Jiri Hrdina]

Originally Posted by Stay Golden

I wish Joel Q was made available so we will all get super jacked up & then we watch Bradley quickly pass over him. Not even interview him. Then everyone can realize he really is not that sharp of a GM.

Holy crow you've made your point. Is this what we have to look forward to for four years before the guy has even been hired?
I don't mind the rationale criticisms and opinions but the relentless trying-to-be-funny-but-failing-but-repeating-the-same-jokes-over-and-over-again is aggravating.

[btimbit]

Originally Posted by MisterJoji

Was hoping for Tippett, AV, Sutter or one of the more established guys but as a fan of the team, I’ll get behind the hire until it proves to be a problem. I mentioned in another thread that Jack Adams front runner Gerard Gallant was a bad coach until he wasn’t. He didn’t coach Columbus to within even a sniff of the playoffs for 2+ years, then surprisingly took the Panthers to the playoffs although they were upset. Now he’s coaching an expansion team that is a legit Stanley Cup contender. Let’s hope Bill Peters has a similar progression. It’ll be very interesting to see who will be hired for each assistant position.

Just like players, there is such thing as good and bad fits for coaches as well. Carolina sure sounds like it's been a mess of an organization so maybe it was just a bad fit (and I've read exactly that from any 'Canes fans).

Who knows, I'm not convinced but I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.

[Jiri Hrdina]

Originally Posted by blender

One thing that occurred to me is that if indeed Peters is the man, it fits with the MO of playing a specific style. Regardless of what we think is right, a Peters hiring would indicate a desire from Treliving to stick with the system he has identified as desirable.

I think people are confusing system with approach.
I think it is fair to say that BT values a puck possession approach.
But there are many systems that you can implement to achieve that.
I think we will see a coach that offers a
- Similar high level approach (puck possession)
- A different system (to what degree we don't know)
- A different approach to managing the players (more of a taskmaster from what I read)

[tvp2003]

So what are the odds the new Hurricanes GM hires Gulutzan?!?

[Jiri Hrdina]

Originally Posted by tvp2003

So what are the odds the new Hurricanes GM hires Gulutzan?!?

That nutjob is just as likely to name himself the head coach.

[stone hands]

Originally Posted by blender

One thing that occurred to me is that if indeed Peters is the man, it fits with the MO of playing a specific style. Regardless of what we think is right, a Peters hiring would indicate a desire from Treliving to stick with the system he has identified as desirable.
One positive aspect is that there have been times the last 2 seasons where the Flames have looked very good. If Peters is able to make a few adjustments such as activating the D more often, improve special teams and instill a will to win and consistent level of effort and execution we could see a very successful team next season.
If not, I agree that Treliving will likely walk the plank.
Regardless, to me, a Peters hire would indicate that Treliving is staying the course and I have to respect that even if I don't necessarily agree with it.

this is pretty much my thinking. i am hopeful that peters can whip them into shape and be consistently that team that looked unstoppable at times

[btimbit]

Originally Posted by tvp2003

So what are the odds the new Hurricanes GM hires Gulutzan?!?

Seems like he'll do something dumb, that owner seems more interested in shaking thing up than making good decisions. He'll probably hire Cameron as the head coach and Gulutzan as GM

[tfi racing]

Originally Posted by Brick

Hopefully, the owners intervene and clean house before another season is wasted.

Yeah,now all of a sudden will be the time the owners actually do something to put a winning team on the ice...

[Inferno]

Here is the tweet in question about it being a four year deal. Like I said it didn't come from a reliable hockey insider so I never bothered posting it last night.

https://twitter.com/JMarshyBosco93/s...23416518934528