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Originally Posted by Calgary4LIfe
Are people getting their pitchforks out just to.. get them out?
Ken King:
Everyone keeps saying the same two things about him:
1) He is 'meddling' in hockey ops
2) He is a 'newspaper man', not a 'hockey guy'
Let's address the first. Is there a single shred of proof that exists showing that Ken King is meddling? Has any ex-coach stated he is meddling? What is his role? He is responsible for the business side, It just isn't a good team. There is no 'blue print to guaranteed success', and almost always the team that is put together fails to get it down, and you have to change it. Arming yourself with pitchforks and trying to find the virgin sacrifice will not appease the hockey gods, and the next iteration of the Calgary Flames may still fail!
I just think people are looking too hard to place blame where it can make sense for them to do so, regardless of what the truth is or not.
At the end of the day, the Flames have an ownership group that wants to win and have no qualms about spending money to do it. If there are management personnel that are keeping the Flames from doing it, I am sure they will have no trouble replacing them, as they have in the past. The owners are not scared of losing a few bucks. If they were, this would not be a cap team season after season.
At the very least, the Flames are one of the few teams in the league with VERY stable ownership who are committed to winning. Without it, a team has ZERO chance of being successful on the ice (outside of a lucky year or two).
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I think the reason many (including myself0 see the dread hand of King or Murrey (or both as I believe) on the team is because it has been clear for 3 seasons the team is done and needs to be rebuilt, now when Sutter was in charge you could argue he was a stubbern old sod and was riding his team into the sunset come hell or high water, but when Feaster was hired to replace Sutter (with little due process, which in hockey/business terms tends to be the equivalent of fingers in the ears singing
'I can't hear you') and yet he continued to follow the same completely senseless path that Sutter had taken the team it makes no hockey sense what so ever.
So either Feaster is a moron or someone with no hockey smarts what so ever is realy running the show and Feaster is just being a good lawyer and following his clients instructions, them's your choices pick whichever.