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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
Realistically, how hard is it to sell the corporate community of this city to shell out money for the hockey team?
Keep the charitable stuff steady, keep your organization out of bad press, and stay away from hockey ops. It's the easiest job of its kind in Calgary.
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If it was easy what happened in the 90's? Sure the dollar was crap and the team couldn't spend the the sponsorship dried up as well as did season ticket holders. The team is in a better place today for many reasons and King is part of that. The hockey operations area another story and it's quite frankly a mess.
I'm sure if Ken King was reading this thread he would have a chuckle but the joke is on him because no matter how smart he thinks he is and how great he thinks his/their plan is the results say otherwise and Flames fans and the entire hockey world see that this organization is the Islanders West. The worst thing to happen to a team or any business is when the management is oblivious to their failures and poor results. There can be no doubt that Flames management is out of touch with the the rest of the league when it comes to running a hockey team. When you have a 15th place team spending up to the cap in a 'win now' mode logic would dictate heads should roll but logic does not apply to this franchise in fact it appears business as usual and a 4th straight year out of the players, soon to be re-signed captain of the on ice failures to lead the same team next year given their 5th shot to break the streak of futility and fulfil the organization's ultimate goal of 8th place. King and Feaster would tell you in a straight face it's all part of the plan.