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LOL at people worried about our former GM. The guy who wrote one or two articles for the Hockey News in his 5 year hiatus after Tampa, and hasn't done anything else since.

There's a reason he was hands off at the draft, he had no idea what he was doing at a draft table. He was a slick salesman that hoodwinked Murray Edwards into a job, first as assistant, then the full time gig, by saying what he wanted to hear, such as giving him and King full transparency, as of course Darryl did his own thing and that drove Edwards up the wall.

Once he got the job, he leveraged his relationship hard on getting Richards. Trades like Cammalleri fell in his lap. If it wasn't clear to Edwards that they had a dud on their hand who really didn't have any friends or solid contacts in the league the ROR thing was the final straw. They couldn't fire him because they needed someone two months later to trade Iginla, and he botched that by ripping the player and the agent and other players and agents took note. His return for Bouwmeester was terrible too. Trading Regher like garbage to take the run at Richards. Sending Conny to the minors with no notice. Agau, people took notice.

Only good thing it got was Edwards realizing how grave a mistake he made and trying to fix it asap as he saw the Flames behind the scenes reputation sinking in the toilet after these events, which got us Burke to pull the reputation out of the toliet (after Shanahan) and Treliving from there.

That former GM would be exactly though what Lowe would want. McTavish would seem too much of a nod to the late 2000s for the public consumption and optics.

Bring in an external guy who will basically take his lead from Lowe, while being enough of a slick talker to fans and media to deflect the criticism and put a positive, yet totally phony and unsubstantial actions behind those words.