Billy is Gone

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Everything they’re saying about him is right. He always seemed really intense and when he was hired he was considered a student of new styles. The bruins reporter wrote
article about our modern style and how it compared to the Bruins a couple of seasons ago. Across the league Peters has been getting kudos for our style of play and the changes he made.

We had a really good coach, and most people didn’t seem to realize that.

Players didn’t perform, and his requests for better players went unheeded. Goaltending can make any coach look good or bad. Maybe this had to happen no matter what, and change will maybe be good but the problem here had very little to do with Peters.
 

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I’m not sure he will find more success in Calgary as they are too similar in talent to the Canes. I think Peters could be the best Assistant Coach in the NHL. If constantly cycling the perimeter and avoiding the slot like the plague isn’t part of Peters system then he failed miserably to translate that over the past 4 years. Maybe he feels avoiding high-danger scoring areas is the only way to reliably maintain possession. Whatever it was it didn’t work (with this group).
 

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I’m not sure he will find more success in Calgary as they are too similar in talent to the Canes. I think Peters could be the best Assistant Coach in the NHL. If constantly cycling the perimeter and avoiding the slot like the plague isn’t part of Peters system then he failed miserably to translate that over the past 4 years. Maybe he feels avoiding high-danger scoring areas is the only way to reliably maintain possession. Whatever it was it didn’t work (with this group).

Even if they are similar, that's all he needs is a better goaltender.. I would say their defense is better and more experienced than the Canes and they are a tougher team to play against than the Canes. If Smith ends up being average, they can make the playoffs, especially in that division.
 

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Jordan Staal refused to go to the net well before Peters was here. We have a team full of smurfs who rarely take the middle. TT avoids traffic like the dentist. Rask? Lindy isn’t any better but at least has the excuse of being a Swedish playmaker. Skinner takes the middle and the breeze gives him a concussion.

Blaming Peters for this team playing on the perimeter and never taking the middle aggressively?!? I may have officially heard it all.

The guy was screaming for better players. He loves McGinn. The guy who goes to the middle when he has to.
 

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Even if they are similar, that's all he needs is a better goaltender.. I would say their defense is better and more experienced than the Canes and they are a tougher team to play against than the Canes. If Smith ends up being average, they can make the playoffs, especially in that division.

Smith has never been a guy who didn’t face a ton of shots. Will be interesting to see how he does facing 25 a night. His SV% might be in the toilet while still winning games.
 

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Maybe he feels avoiding high-danger scoring areas is the only way to reliably maintain possession. Whatever it was it didn’t work (with this group).

Is that because Peters told his players to treat the slot like lava, or because of the 4 guys who should even bother trying to generate a slot shot, 2 are strictly perimeter players and the other 2 are terrible puck handlers who lose possession at the first sign of trouble?
 

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Is that because Peters told his players to treat the slot like lava, or because of the 4 guys who should even bother trying to generate a slot shot, 2 are strictly perimeter players and the other 2 are terrible puck handlers who lose possession at the first sign of trouble?

I was happy to keep Peters and let whatever GM bring in whatever he specifically said he would need to make his system work. I don't discount that it is possible.

Let's say that best-case scenario Peters was banging his fists screaming for guys to get to the slot for 4 straight years. I still don't give him a pass because I never saw it translate. A guy like Skinner was working less hard last year to get to the slot than he has in the past. Peters wasn't getting his gameplan translated onto the ice if that was in-fact his gameplan. Peters loved McGinn and I do think that is a fair thing to point out, but he also loved Derek Ryan which is tough to reconcile.
 

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How would you use the word, then? I've always thought he was pretty intense, echoing what BBA said. Now you're disagreeing with an actual player's opinion/description of him?
I already admitted he's intense in a certain way, I just don't think it's the best word to describe him. Do I need to write a dissertation on the topic for you?
 

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Yeah, Bill Peters goes from poorly managing a hopelessly inept franchise to potentially poorly managing a hopelessly inept franchise. Lateral move.

As for his successor in Carolina, only thing I know is that he must be willing to work cheap. SpongeBob Cheap. Pork & Beans Cheap. Thrift Store Underwear Cheap.

If it seems like we won't bankroll a new GM, what do we expect with the quality of our next coach?
 

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tarheelhockey

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The guy was screaming for better players.

This is something that really shouldn't be lost in the conversation. Peters was as transparent as you'll ever see from a modern NHL coach on the need to refresh the roster if this team is going to get any better from here. He was not a guy to beat around the bush about player attitudes and commitment, and I have a feeling we're going to miss that when it's gone.
 
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