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Originally Posted by FAN
I disagree. I think Burke's position is going to be a determent to finding and hiring the best man for the job. There's a difference between having an organizational structure where the President acts more like a senior advisor who oversees everything and acts more like a rubber stamper and an organizational structure where the President intends to make every single decision and the GM simply does the legwork.
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Since we don't really know anything about the organisational structure in the Flames hockey operations department, I don't see how you can make such a clean distinction of the next Flames GM as one who "simply does the legwork". Put plainly: You don't know what will be entailed in the position, and to that end you have no idea beyond Burke's published criteria about what sort of candidate the team wants, nor which candidates would be best suited to THIS position. How can you even know who is the best man for the job without knowing much at all about the job itself?
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Originally Posted by FAN
If you look around, most teams with this management structure have an inexperienced President who isn't looking to call the shots. Burke on the other hand made no secret that he's the one making the decisions.
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He did? Not from anything that I have seen. Do you have a link to where he has made such clear statements?
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Originally Posted by FAN
It places the Flames at a competitive disadvantage as far as hiring the best man for the job because guys who want to run their own team want as much autonomy as possible.
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You are making a global claim for the group of potential NHL GMs that you simply cannot make. Once again, we DON'T KNOW anything about the organisational structure, nor about the specific responsibilities of the incoming Flames' GM. Without knowing any of this, it is extremely difficult to make any claims about both who is the best man for the job, and also which specific candidates such a position either appeals to or does not.
All this to say that I don't expect the Flames to have much trouble finding a qualified, experienced, and skilled candidate.