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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
This phrase is so stupid.
Treliving was hired to run a hockey team. He'd better be a smart man. He'd better have confidence in his own convictions. If he thinks he's the smartest man in his office, great, thats his frackin job. Rather have that than someone who isn't smart, or doesn't think they know whats best.
If he thinks Peters is the best choice available so be it. We won't have enough information to judge him wrong until Peters is here running the team.
But yeah, this smartest man in the room phrase is anything but smart.
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I could have phrased it "I'll be pretty tired of Treliving trying to prove he's the 'smartest man in the room' with risky decisions" but you knew exactly what I meant in context, so the phrase works just fine.
But in case you didn't and you weren't purposely being obtuse, I'll reiterate. Through the use of that phrase I was trying to say that I hope Treliving makes the best choice here. I hope he doesn't pull another Gulutzan out of his hat in Peters. The idea behind 'smartest man in the room' is that the smart man might want to put his intelligence on display. To do so, he would pick someone counter to the common vote to show he was able to perceive things they weren't. To demonstrate that he was, in fact, the smartest man in the room.
In no way does that phrase mean that I hope Treliving isn't the smartest man in the room. I'm not hoping that he is stupid, and I'm glad a smart person was hired to run the hockey team.
But for being so careful to criticize a phrase in my post, you decided to ignore the tense I chose to use. "[...]if Peters comes in and we stumble next year" is the future tense, as is "I'll be pretty tired of Treliving's 'smartest man in the room' decisions". I don't pretend to know if Peters will be a good coach, but I do know that there are 2 options available in Sutter and Vigneault that I think are pretty fine options. The phrase implies that a risk will be taken to show how much smarter they are, and I'm hoping he doesn't take that risk.
It sure was easier to say "I'll be pretty tired of Treliving's 'smartest man in the room' decisions", but I hope that clears up my perspective on the Peters hire if it comes to be.