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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
I think you're mostly on track except kosten'em.
Spector took it upon himself to let everyone know what a big shot insider he was proclaiming chiarelli was solely responsible for signing/negotiating with koskinen.
Then he asked Nicholson about it today, who very flatly refuted spectors 'reporting' right to his face. It was a group decision.
Frankly, I see the chia firing coming down now for 1 or 2 reasons:
Reason 1) chiarelli was not willing to continue to make terrible moves that would cost the organization dearly like moving pool party or a top 10 pick etc, or take a terrible deal to move Talbot. So they fired him to get someone in his chair who WOULD be willing to make those kinds of idiotic moves. Enter Scott howson stage left.
Reason 2) Chiarelli was simply unable to consummate any deals league wide because he was driving too hard of a bargain or because of residual negative feelings towards the oilers from organizations/GMs around the league, so they fired him to let everyone know Scott howson was open for business.
All you needed to hear today was confirmation the oil won't be naming anyone acting or interim GM. I used to do #### like that when I didn't want my name attached to subpar work. "Nah, go ahead, I don't need my name on the website."
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I believe this nothing more than a PR move to appease the masses who had simply had enough, and Chia was the patsy to make it look good.
OBC is alive and well....even though it doesn't exist according to Nicholson.