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Originally Posted by FakenHaken
^^^This and as Eric Duhatschek spoke on the fan. Very important decisions need to be made.
Go into your war room with "all" the owners (IE not just Murray Edwards), the president, the special assistant to the GM, the assistant GM, and the coaches. Come up with the consensus of ok we are not good enough to make it right now on March 19, 2013 if the season ended today. Why/why not? Can we make the decision to go for it and go for it is the Stanley Cup not just 8th place when we have been in the same position for the last 4 years and we've never pushed to even just get 8. Is 8 good enough as it was last year, are we good enough to do what LA did? We decide to rebuild/retool. Why? Do we have a better opportunity to win the Stanley Cup in 2 years/ 3 years/ 5 years? Be honest not just with themselves, but be honest to each other and the franchise. Otherwise, if they can't my guess is they will begin to loose the fan base as they did in the young guns era. Very difficult decisions and decision paths if they are not absolutley honest.
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This is exactly what needs to happen and likely won't.
When the GM of your team continuously makes arrogant statements like how "if this team wants a rebuild, they need to find a new GM" (like he's above that sort of work) then it's hard to have any confidence in them to make rational decisions. Being able to admit when things aren't working is difficult to do and Feaster has basically proven that he doesn't want (or doesn't have to the power to) admit when he's wrong.