Calgary Flames general manager Brad Treliving wasted no time in turfing head coach Glen Gulutzan a little more than a week after the season ended in utter failure, and it was clear to everyone his haste in making moves was because he already had a replacement all but officially on board.
On Monday, the inking of the 17th head coach in franchise history was made official and the team welcomed Bill Peters to the fold without so much as interviewing another candidate.
A quick decision made with little hesitation, the team’s tactician of transactions is comfortable knowing he has hitched his future to that of his latest coach’s — the third Treliving has issued contracts to in less than four calendar years after handing his inherited Bob Hartley an extension during the 2014-15 campaign, and then hiring Gulutzan when the players tired of the former’s tyranny.