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Originally Posted by browna
Sure.
But before all the sh*t lands at King's feet with the latest round of half assed allegations and implications that he's making the big decisions and basically running the team day to day, and marginalizing what he's done, and what he's still doing, some perspective and background is in order before people get to carried away in labelling him redundant, or, the big reason the on ice roster is what it is.
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I'm certainly not trying to diminish King's considerable accomplishments in improving the state of this franchise and its community relations with the city. Nobody can deny he has been a brilliant success on those fronts.
The problem is not that he's designed the team on the ice, nor that he's "making the big decisions and running the team day-to-day"--I don't believe either of those to be true. It's that the hockey operations staff he has assembled and the dynamic they have tried to implement in the group doesn't seem to be functioning as they might have anticipated.
The group he hired to build the on-ice team is failing. Worse than this, it is showing no signs of having any kind of coherent long-term plan whatsoever. In normal situations, this calls for the person at the top to take steps to rectify or correct a dysfunctional and unsuccessful management team. The worry a lot of us feel here is that King has worked too closely to that team, and has too much invested in its success--namely, it vindicates his decision to fire a close personal friend and one-time saviour of the franchise, which he described as the worst day of his career--to be able to soberly reflect on and implement the changes required.
Or even to acknowledge that they are required.