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Originally Posted by powderjunkie

The scariest thing is that you may well be correct...20 years of considering this, waiting, thinking, waiting, planning, waiting, figuring out just the right way to do this, planting seeds to build foundation for a deal...and the end result has been what we've seen over the last few years??????

Utterly inept. I don't think CSEC is evil...I understand they are acting in their own interest, just as I would. But I'd hope I could do a better job or strategizing and building necessary relationships! I'm thinking Hanlon's razor may be the most appropriate explanation.

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

I am increasingly convinced that management and ownership are simply a smouldering tire-fire, both on and off the ice. It just doesn't seem so evident when we have a full landfill-fire burning out of control for the last 2 decades a couple hours to our north.

That isn't to say I think ownership are bad people - they are wonderful philanthropists, and we could do a lot worse for ownership (see Edmonton, Ottawa, NY Knicks, Indy Colts, etc.). Shrewd businessmen? Not so sure...smart oilmen at the right time, right place, with the right capital in the right industry? Sure, but that has not translated into running an above average franchise.


I probably exaggerate a little bit, but I think there is plenty of truth in there, and it's a big part of why I feel uncomfortable subsidizing...incompetence (for lack of a better word).

I've been in the room with Edwards on a non-oil industry deal. He's shrewd. Mind you, that was at least 12 years ago.