Professional hockey is very much a “what have you done for me lately?” world, and it’s very rare that a hockey operations regime can burn through coaches before they, too, are cast aside. So it’s completely logical to expect that barring a parade of some sort over the next three years, Bill Peters will probably be Brad Treliving’s last coaching hire as general manager of the Calgary Flames.
To some it may be perplexing that Treliving is betting big on Peters – who coached the Carolina Hurricanes to zero playoff games – rather than somebody like Darryl Sutter or Alain Vigneault, given that his job is on the line.