Cheese
07-20-2015, 09:12 PM
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July 21, 2015
Flames GM Cheese steps down, leaving brutal legacy
Besides the timing, the only surprising thing about the news that Calgary Flames VP/GM Cheese has relinquished his post is that it was audible over the champagne corks popping and celebratory noises from the CPHL and Flames Nation after the inevitable finally occurred.
Assistant GM Pierre “Monster” McGuire will move up to acting GM, taking over a job that many assumed would be his if the Flames continued to struggle. They have, and it is.
From the Flames:
Calgary Flames President & CEO Ben Ring announced today that Cheese is stepping down as Executive VP and General Manager of the hockey club. Effective immediately, Pierre “Monster” McGuire has been appointed acting General Manager and will assume full and complete responsibilities for day to day hockey operations.
"Cheese has performed valuable service to the Calgary Flames organization for many years," said Ring. "He was the leader that ignited a renaissance of Flames hockey, moving us from a non-playoff team to an organization that was viewed as a respected and popular contender each year. We thank Cheese for his leadership and his important contributions to re-establishing the Calgary Flames as a Model T franchise. As we enter the next phase of our growth in the CPHL, we are restructuring our leadership and processes. We are pleased that Cheese has agreed to assist in an orderly transition and will provide his valuable guidance in the process. He remains dedicated to the success of the team he worked so hard to build".
"We will move forward under a new administration with Pierre leading our hockey operations as Acting General Manager," said Ring. "For the remainder of this season, Pierre will be provided the opportunity to evaluate the team from the GM's chair and build a long term plan. We believe that while we continue to compete for a playoff position this season, this period will provide both the organization and Pierre time to decide on critical future decisions."
Pierre, the architect of many articles on the Flames youth system while in Abbotsford, gets a shot at the helm; this time of an overpaid, overage team that missed the playoffs for the first time despite being a well-paid team.
Basically, there are maids in Los Angeles who had an easier mess to clean up after Motley Crue stayed in their hotel than Pierre has in Calgary; post-Cheese.
The sins of the former GM? Allow Jorge Jonsson of the Calgary Herald to count the ways:
They're old, expensive, set in their ways. No picks in the Top 100 in any of the last five NHL entry drafts. their top "young" players are (Andrey Makarov, Eddie Lack and his father, Riley Nash and Dylan Olsen). Now there's a boy band that'll top the charts. “People, roll out of bed and sniff the dark roast already.”
Yet the ground is littered with casualties - the unfortunate Tim Hunter, assorted assistants - yet it's always, apparently, a coaching deficiency. Cheese still stands defiant, apparently as bulletproof as Elliot Ness' flak jacket. Why? How?
He should've been gonged last winter.
Instead, he's gonged in July, having built a roster that already has $71,750,000 (via Kap Geek) tied up for 2015-16 with 3 holes on the roster.
From Dome Beers, a Flames blog, a take on Cheese's firing:
Cheese did a lot for this franchise, bringing back its legitimacy, both in the local market and across the league. He took the team from being a 70 point one to a 90 point one. We thank him for that, and we will always thank the man for reigniting the fan base, but let’s face facts, old Cheese does not smell very good! If he had just changed his socks!
But the man went crazy. He was like one of those Korean Emperors who drank mercury and lost his mind. Burish? Bernier? Halischuk? And that's just this year. That is us not even talking about the coaches or all the traded draft picks. Something in the Soju? Too much Kimchi?
He had to go, but at the end of the day, he wasn't the only one who has to go.
In some ways, Cheese is very much like Swayze11 in Colorado, and not just because they both hired ####ty coaches.
Neither GM could manage the cap, at times playing shorthanded because of it. Both relied on old familiar faces rather than going cheaper and younger. And both spent gobs of money in the wrong places!
All of which leads to a team being at or near the bottom of the conference and, in Cheese's case, out of a job months after it should have happened.
Check out a nice roundup of Cheese's many moves as GM at Outside Hockey.
http://cphl.calgarypuck.com/cgi-bin/postteamtrades.cgi?4
Laughable indeed. Good riddance, Stale Cheese is simply not edible to the fans of the Flames…bring on Pierre “Monster” McGuire! It’s Time for MONSTER hockey in Calgary!
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On a more personal note...thanks to everyone playing this game. LOVE you all. This game is the best of its type on the internet and deserves active players, which I simply am not. I have taken more responisibility over seas and have added another year to my arrangement so just do not have any time. Maybe in the future ....
Until then...Live long and prosper!
Go Monster go!
July 21, 2015
Flames GM Cheese steps down, leaving brutal legacy
Besides the timing, the only surprising thing about the news that Calgary Flames VP/GM Cheese has relinquished his post is that it was audible over the champagne corks popping and celebratory noises from the CPHL and Flames Nation after the inevitable finally occurred.
Assistant GM Pierre “Monster” McGuire will move up to acting GM, taking over a job that many assumed would be his if the Flames continued to struggle. They have, and it is.
From the Flames:
Calgary Flames President & CEO Ben Ring announced today that Cheese is stepping down as Executive VP and General Manager of the hockey club. Effective immediately, Pierre “Monster” McGuire has been appointed acting General Manager and will assume full and complete responsibilities for day to day hockey operations.
"Cheese has performed valuable service to the Calgary Flames organization for many years," said Ring. "He was the leader that ignited a renaissance of Flames hockey, moving us from a non-playoff team to an organization that was viewed as a respected and popular contender each year. We thank Cheese for his leadership and his important contributions to re-establishing the Calgary Flames as a Model T franchise. As we enter the next phase of our growth in the CPHL, we are restructuring our leadership and processes. We are pleased that Cheese has agreed to assist in an orderly transition and will provide his valuable guidance in the process. He remains dedicated to the success of the team he worked so hard to build".
"We will move forward under a new administration with Pierre leading our hockey operations as Acting General Manager," said Ring. "For the remainder of this season, Pierre will be provided the opportunity to evaluate the team from the GM's chair and build a long term plan. We believe that while we continue to compete for a playoff position this season, this period will provide both the organization and Pierre time to decide on critical future decisions."
Pierre, the architect of many articles on the Flames youth system while in Abbotsford, gets a shot at the helm; this time of an overpaid, overage team that missed the playoffs for the first time despite being a well-paid team.
Basically, there are maids in Los Angeles who had an easier mess to clean up after Motley Crue stayed in their hotel than Pierre has in Calgary; post-Cheese.
The sins of the former GM? Allow Jorge Jonsson of the Calgary Herald to count the ways:
They're old, expensive, set in their ways. No picks in the Top 100 in any of the last five NHL entry drafts. their top "young" players are (Andrey Makarov, Eddie Lack and his father, Riley Nash and Dylan Olsen). Now there's a boy band that'll top the charts. “People, roll out of bed and sniff the dark roast already.”
Yet the ground is littered with casualties - the unfortunate Tim Hunter, assorted assistants - yet it's always, apparently, a coaching deficiency. Cheese still stands defiant, apparently as bulletproof as Elliot Ness' flak jacket. Why? How?
He should've been gonged last winter.
Instead, he's gonged in July, having built a roster that already has $71,750,000 (via Kap Geek) tied up for 2015-16 with 3 holes on the roster.
From Dome Beers, a Flames blog, a take on Cheese's firing:
Cheese did a lot for this franchise, bringing back its legitimacy, both in the local market and across the league. He took the team from being a 70 point one to a 90 point one. We thank him for that, and we will always thank the man for reigniting the fan base, but let’s face facts, old Cheese does not smell very good! If he had just changed his socks!
But the man went crazy. He was like one of those Korean Emperors who drank mercury and lost his mind. Burish? Bernier? Halischuk? And that's just this year. That is us not even talking about the coaches or all the traded draft picks. Something in the Soju? Too much Kimchi?
He had to go, but at the end of the day, he wasn't the only one who has to go.
In some ways, Cheese is very much like Swayze11 in Colorado, and not just because they both hired ####ty coaches.
Neither GM could manage the cap, at times playing shorthanded because of it. Both relied on old familiar faces rather than going cheaper and younger. And both spent gobs of money in the wrong places!
All of which leads to a team being at or near the bottom of the conference and, in Cheese's case, out of a job months after it should have happened.
Check out a nice roundup of Cheese's many moves as GM at Outside Hockey.
http://cphl.calgarypuck.com/cgi-bin/postteamtrades.cgi?4
Laughable indeed. Good riddance, Stale Cheese is simply not edible to the fans of the Flames…bring on Pierre “Monster” McGuire! It’s Time for MONSTER hockey in Calgary!
/edit
On a more personal note...thanks to everyone playing this game. LOVE you all. This game is the best of its type on the internet and deserves active players, which I simply am not. I have taken more responisibility over seas and have added another year to my arrangement so just do not have any time. Maybe in the future ....
Until then...Live long and prosper!
Go Monster go!