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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
This is the entire problem in a nutshell. Flames ownership hasn't been smart or honest with themselves. King is an extension of that. The reality is the Murray Edwards and company don't treat the Flames like they do their own private businesses. I can guarantee if CNRL started to flounder that he would not sit idly and let the people below him making poor decisions maintain their positioning within the company. He's just like the guy up north in that it's a hobby that the the results aren't as important as the fun of living a childhood dream of being involved in the NHL hockey. I don't expect Edwards to make any solid, honest decisions as this is their little hobby not their livelihood. Everyone seems to dance around the important fact that if anyone deserves to be fired it's ownership.
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That's one (of many potential) reasons for things going badly. Another is exactly the opposite of what you just said. I don't know anything about Edwards leadership style over at CNRL, so let me just get that out the way. But isn't it just as likely that when things don't go well over there, Edwards is a role up his sleeves get involved type of guy? Rights the ship, or at least helps right it himself?
Maybe that's a management style that works for him in that business, and maybe his abilities in that business make him very successful at it. And maybe that's what he's trying to do with the Flames, get himself involved to right the ship, only he's not really qualified to do so when it comes to the NHL. So what he's not actually sitting idly by while others mess up, maybe he's taking control out of there hands.
Let me be clear, I don't have any reason to believe the above to be true, but I think it's just as likely a scenario as the he's running it like a hobby theory.