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Originally Posted by fleury
The best part of all the national attention the Flames are getting (though negative), is that the mainstream media realizes this team needs to rebuild. It's managing fans expectations. Ownership would look really stupid if they were buyers at the deadline, and with all this media exposure, they're opening themselves up to heavy scrutiny if they don't go into rebuilding mode - though what degree of rebuilding remains to be seen.
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The attention from the national media only highlights how supine our own media are. Reporters in other NHL cities - in Toronto, Boston, New York, Montreal - hold nothing back when it comes to assessing the team's management and holding their feet to the fire. It took a long time for the media in Calgary to question Sutter's handling of the team. And they have never taken upper management to task. Where are the columns by George Johnson or Scott Cruikshank questioning the direction of this franchise? Duhatscheck has recently started to become more critical, but he's more of a national than a local media now.
I don't know if it's King's connections with Calgary's newspapers or what, but Flames executive have an immunity from criticism that no other executive outside Edmonton shares. Or maybe it's just an Alberta thing - we don't criticize our own.