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Originally Posted by Cleveland Steam Whistle
Oh geeze, regardless of how you feel about the arena situation or KK, be careful what you wish for. Not saying they are perfect, but do we really want to complain about an ownership group that basically allows us to spend to the cap each year? Things could be a lot worse, and I'd be much more worried about what new owners could mean than optimistic about how much better they could make it.
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For the last 21 years, this ownership group has employed either Ron Bremner or Ken King as the President of the Flames/CSEC. These are 2 guys that have proven to be absolute disasters in that role with numerous poor hires made below them for both on and off ice roles. There is no sign that King is about to be turfed anytime soon either.
In that 21 years the Flames have gotten out of the 1st round twice, the magical and improbable run in 2004 and beating the Nucks in 2015 only to get crushed in the 2nd round by a much superior Ducks team.
Yes the Flames owners spend to the cap in recent years but as proven last night, all the money in the world doesn't buy success if you don't have competent people in the right positions of the organization, especially at the top.
There are also the various reports of meddling by ownership and whether true or not, the results of the Flames with this ownership group, especially after the passing of Hotchkiss, speak for themselves.
So to summarize, ya i'd definitely take my chances with a different ownership group.