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Originally Posted by GioforPM
One thing about all of this - it was a Q&A. So if someone asks Burke "Could the Flames leave if they don't get a new arena" what's he supposed to say? He has to say it's possible. At best he could say "no comment" but that'd be taken as a yes anyway.
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Senior executives in any company that do media appearances or speak in public get trained on how to navigate minefields and promote the proper messaging.
All he had to say was that discussions are ongoing, they're taking a lot longer than originally thought but that that they're hopeful for a resolution. When prodded specifically about relocation, all he had to say is that it's not something he's giving any energy to and that they're currently focused on (as Treliving would say) the process to get a new arena built in Calgary as soon as possible.
When people speak out like he did today, its usually for a few of reasons:
1) He's an loud mouth that went off script
2) He knowingly did it as part of a strategy to put pressure on government to make the next move
Ken King used #2 a few months ago and had to back track about how he wasn't saying what he was saying. Knowing that, I'd have to suspect that Burke went with #1.