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Originally Posted by Badgers Nose
Duhatschek Is just one of us on steroids. To call what he and other sports analysts do as journalism is doing a discredit to journalism.
So at the end of the day what the sports analysts say isn't any different then what people here say. It doesn't carry any more weight than what posters on boards like this have to say.
So if the embarrassment doesn't extend beyond what sports analysts have to say about the flames then I don't think anyone in ownership is going to be particularly worried about that.
Nor will feaster, because if any one of those sports analysts was as good as they think they are they would be making half a million per year to run a professional sports franchise.
I might sound like I'm defending him, but really all I'm saying is that on the spectrum of people that I don't really give a #### about sports media are at the far end of the continuum.
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Duhatschek isn't some blogger sitting in a bathrobe posting his opinions. He has regular, probably daily conversations with NHL managers, coaches, executives, scouts, and agents. Since he's respected around the NHL for not burning sources, these insiders say things to him that they wouldn't say in public.
Sorry, but he is a legitimate source of information about how the Flames are regarded around the NHL. But as the Flames fortunes have declined in recent years, fans on this board have gotten in the habit of shooting the messenger. I mean, isn't it funny how NHL journalists have gotten worse at doing their jobs at exactly the same time that Flames players have gotten worse at doing theirs?