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Originally Posted by Ped
Edmonton is a complete disaster from top to bottom and has been for years, but imo it sounds like after a few half-hearted attempts he said screw it and took his money.
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As opposed to continuing to bang your head against a brick wall, and only creating more non-constructive conflict with the inmates who are running the asylum?
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Originally Posted by Locke
And finally, I never said he shouldnt have taken care of himself. You cant just 'look out for #1 and damn the consequences' and then complain about the consequences.
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Sure you can. He presumably wasn't hired to be the only one to fix the situation. I'm sure he tried to do what was reasonable within his role, which last time I checked was as a player, not a coach, manager, or owner. Without true effort from the guys in track-suits and cheap-suits, it would be impossible to fix things even if the bottom 6 forwards and all 6 D-men were 'Mark Messier Leadership Award
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Ference needed to put most of his energy into staying afloat as an NHL player...doesn't leave much time/energy for doing the job of coach and GM.
The only thing I fault Ference for is becoming a cheap-shot artist, but even that has a fairly reasonable explanation: he just wasn't good enough to contribute in the traditional hockey sense, but still wanted to bring some fire to the ice to wake up the assclowns around him. It's at least contrary to the point above about mailing it in.
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Originally Posted by Hockeyguy15
First overall picks aren't really as big of an advantage as people make them out to be.
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I dunno, the Penguins and Blackhawks seemed to make good use of their 1st and 2nd OA's...
