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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
It's fine to be upset at the product on the ice and fate of the 2017/18 Calgary Flames but to place the blame of this season on ownership is laughable and embarrassing.
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Lots of hands-on owners spend to the cap and want to win. That isn't the issue. The issue is people who are not hockey experts - Edwards and King - meddling in hockey operations.
Brad Treliving is a smart guy. I'd have far more confidence in the future of this team if I believed he has the freedom to try to put together a winning team without input and pressure from above. But I don't believe that is the case. There has been too much insider talk of 'too many cooks in the kitchen' in the Flames organisation. The meddling and impatience has been going on for decades.
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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Get it together people as maybe cheering for professional sports isn't for you a losing season causes you to throw everyone involved under the bus and compare the organization to some of the worst in North American professional sports.
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A losing season? I've been following this team since '84. I'm not talking about losing season. I'm talking about almost 30 years of disappointing seasons.
It's difficult to recognize that the team you're a fan of is run by a poor organization. But it's fandom that blinds us to the enduring and chronic poor results of this franchise, and looks at a succession of players, coaches, and GMs to hang the horns on, rather than looking higher.
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Originally Posted by Rubicant
Agreed. I don't know how anyone can look at the player salaries this team has had since the salary cap came in and come to the conclusion that the owners don't want to win.
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Of course they want to win. But having impatient, meddling owners isn't any better than having ownership who try to cheap out. The results are the same.
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Originally Posted by Rubicant
Another, more reasonable argument is whether they have been the impetus behind the flawed way this team has tried to win (refusing to rebuild during the Iginla years, looking to have tried to take some short cuts in this current rebuild, etc). It looks like a lack of patience to build a winner - and when you've been very successful in a very short time in your primary business like Edwards has, I can see why they have tried to make it happen here, it just hasn't helped.
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Yes, I can see why guys who are hugely successful, high-status alphas in business might think they're smart enough to be successful at other endeavours. But when it comes to professional sports, they're almost always wrong.