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Originally Posted by Tinordi

The NHL is slowly moving toward the NFL model when it comes to player personnel. In the NFL with very tight margins in a 16 game season between championship calibre, winning and losing, personnel decisions are made with a ruthlessness that would make Machiavelli smile.

Peyton Manning, the face of the franchise, the Iginla of Indianapolis, lead them to a championship, and is their all-time greatest player. But he was unceremoniously released after he was injured and after he just signed a $90 million contract. The Colts basically calculated that Manning would not lead them to another championship after they forced to rebuild and moved on with ruthless efficiency. It worked out for Indianapolis as well, that cold-eyed realism drafted them Andrew Luck.

Now the NHL is famous for it being a boys club and for the honour and commitment felt between players and organizations. But, the successful teams will be the ones who pay little to sentimentality and who maximize the assets they have available to them. Look no further than the Iginla and Friends era which was a performance art project on the problem of putting people and relationships above business and performance.

Getting back to Glencross, sure he appears to be a nice guy but that's neither here nor there. Either you're part of the movement to build a contender or you're not. And if you're not well, thank you for your time but we paid you fairly and we treated you well and we wish you all the best.

You make it seem like Indianapolis drafting Luck was as a result of some shrewd move to cut Manning when in fact, it was Manning getting hurt, being forced to sit out an entire season and the Colts going 2-14 as a result, that allowed them to draft Luck in the first place. If Manning doesn't get hurt, the Colts don't go 2-14 and they don't draft Luck, simple as that. It has nothing to do with "the problem of putting people and relationships above business and performance" as you put it. In fact, all Manning did two years after the Colts cut him was set the NFL record for touchdown passes in a season. The jury is still out as to whether or not cutting Manning was the best move for the Colts as Manning has been the better quarterback over the last three years. And now that it looks like he is playing this coming year, he may very well be the better quarter back again this year.

I'm tired of the implication that keeping Glencross and good asset management are mutally exclusive. It may very well be that the draft pick or prospect that the Flames get for him will work out well, and it may very well be that there is a someone in Adirondack who can do the job that he is doing. But things could just as easily go the other way.