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Originally Posted by transplant99
Also, am I the only one scratching my head on the lack of action on the Flames part about this whole fiasco?
Sure...yesterday they were trying to put it to bed by saying what they did and that because the Avs matched, there was no point in discussing it further.
But this became a national firestorm with every media outlet including their own local love in station trying to figure out what would have happened. In that case it should have become AUTOMATIC for Feaster to get in front of the whole thing if he had a well reasoned and factual explanation. The optics on this are so friggin horrible for a team that simply doesnt need such nonsense, that for a guy like him and his mantra of doing things the right way to dodge every media outlet for 2 days afterwards, reeks of "whoops" to me.
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I know this is from last night and was discussed last night, but after more thought, I do think the Flames have to respond again in some manner around this if they or Feaster do in fact truly believe they're right/were right from the start. The longer the silence, the more it looks like it was a whoops and then them/Feaster not owning up to it.
That, or Feaster admits a mistake in judgement/not checking with the league/whatever, to put some more closure behind this and take the accountability for it.
The Flames owe nothing more of a statement as the situation, or do they need to throw out their whole case they were ready to go forward with a fight to the league (if that was the case) but you think with the "accountability" that was supposed to be top to bottom mantra within the organization, that some more of an explanation or apology would be a proper thing to do, optics wise given the media storm around this.