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Old 05-25-2017, 12:59 PM   #44
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Originally Posted by Flash Walken View Post
If you read his post, the mandate from his boss was to keep playing Phaneuf without cutting his minutes.

The same mandate given to Brent Sutter.

It's right there in the post.
You can still give him the same minutes, but bench him for a few shifts after Dion did something stupid. You work within the mandate. Maybe take him off the first unit PP for the next PP that the Flames got, and put him on the 2nd unit. Doesn't have to be all the time, but a coach who thinks a defencemen has a 2 cent brain would find a lot of flexibility working within the mandate. Maybe force him to actually work with Regehr and Warrener during practice.

The fact that none of these things happened (AFAIK) leads me to believe that Keenan didn't think that Dion had a 2 cent brain, mandate or not (which I seriously don't buy).

If this narrative came out of a former teammate or former coach/assistant coach or someone that you could at least validate in some way, I would believe this (illogical) tale.

Not everything wrong with the team has to come from some 'upper management or owner conspiracy'.
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