A strong President's job is to stickhandle relations with the owners and defend the hockey operations from meddling. Ken King is failing in that role and is actually making it worse. Ken King may have done wonders for the business side but in reality he may have opened a Flames bar, done wonders on customer service etc. etc. etc. but the Flames are really no better off than the Oilers in a crap building with brutal amenities and service.
What mattered is the cap and the Canadian dollar, things King had nothing to do with. If you want to say he's the reason you have to then say that the business man in front of EVERY Canadian team in the past 10 years is a genius as well.
Anyway, this guy can't leave soon enough and, from my read it's also likely related to the backfired way they were hoping to get public monies for their grand arena which is always 4 months away from announcement.
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