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Originally Posted by fleury
I want to bring up Neal's departure again because I've been theorizing his departure was because of miscommunication with management. Surely he played badly last year, but the fact that he wasn't able to start fresh with management to start the season, and they got Lucic instead, says to me that there was a breakdown in communication all around. Now you see this year how many on the team haven't been playing up to par and you do wonder if it's him being old school and maybe Treliving not listening to the voice of the players. Has nothing to do with racism in this case, but just a bad people person.
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I could see it as Treliving turning his cheek knowing what he shelled out for Neal, and how vastly he underperformed, siding with "his guy" Peters as far as the decision to not give Neal another season here. Definitely not unheard of in a lot of workplaces. As a manager that is overseeing things i do think its important to remain impartial and listen to all sides even if someone has an issue with your hand picked staff/coach.
I don't know though. I don't know how much of Bill's past coaching tactics that were over the line are spilling over into his current tenure with the Flames and whether or not Neal was treated unfairly or whether it was standard tough love due to his performance.
The next few games should spell out to us how the players really felt.