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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
But if King and ownership meddled in hockey operations, how do they have more credibily than Feaster? It's King and Murray who have zero credibility when it comes to hockey. So the issue is whether they can keep their mitts off hockey operations.
And if the concern out there is about autonomy, I'm not sure how the prospect of Burke looking over his shoulder will be appealing to a GM candidate.
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King/ownership gained back credibility with the hiring of Burke, thus creating a president of hockey operations run by a "hockey" guy. In some part an admission by king/ownership that their meddling and the lack of having this role had become an organizational weakness and an oversight.
A lot easier for a president & owner to disappear out of the public eye and go back to doing what they do best, oversee the organization from a macro level. Not so easy for a front line management guy like feaster who is under a microscope, and made mistakes (namely ROR) that are difficult to recover from. Certainly king/ownership deserve blame, after all they put feaster in the GM role; but hiring Burke was their move and thus any success moving forward with Burke and the hockey operations department (assuming/hoping that there will be) will have kings/ownerships fingerprints on it.