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Old 12-05-2013, 04:22 PM   #101
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Originally Posted by strombad View Post
You're surmising his philosophy based on one thing he said, which granted is all you have to go on, but lets not pretend that GM's don't say things allll the time to appear completely confident and with an absolute direction. If anything, you could lay the job preservation claim on his original statement.

Either way, he didn't leap some philosophical chasm, he just took the team in a different direction once it was very obvious the current one wasn't working and (presumably) permission was granted from the owners.

GM's are salesmen. If you're putting that much stock in his "not the GM for a rebuild" speech, then you got sold hard. You even bought the extended warranty, you silly goose.
Again, not that I am looking to wade too much into this......

But from an outsiders POV (which 99% of us, are), we only see what is on the surface:
- old track record
- current record in the tenure with the Flames
- quotes

There are some posters in this thread that seem to get very offended when these 3 are the metrics used to judge Feaster/Hartley...... which I don't get, cause thats all we really get.
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