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Originally Posted by transplant99
He already knew and worked with Peters from Team Canada. He also stated he did do lots of back ground checks before hiring him and talking to past employers and players. The fact that this incident never came up is not on BT in any way shape or form.
Im not sure how this is a "PR disaster" for the team either. Does the general public find itself looking at the Flames and thinking " that's a racist organization" so I cannot support them? Or are they looking at Bill Peters and thinking that maybe its all his fault he finds himself in this situation and has nothing to do with the Flames, particularly when the whole thing happened when Peters didnt even work for them?
The Blackhawks are who should be getting their feet held to the fire here if anyone should, at least for the allegations from aliu. Ron Francis is in a world of trouble right now as well after the statement from Brindamour yesterday is my guess.
But Brad Treliving? Nope...he has done nothing but handle this the exact way it had to be from the get go. No radio silence, no hiding from the media, he just did things in a calm and timely manner that culminated with what we just saw from the Dome. Kudos to him for all of it.
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Well, as I said, the Flames and Treliving have handled the fallout very well, but this is definitely not the sort of news the team wants to have about them. They pulled it out of the fire.
Treliving is the guy that hired him. Whatever reasonable arguments are to be made about his actual level of responsibility, he will always be associated with bringing Peters into the organization and that association is increased by the fact that Peters was clearly his targeted guy. That's more than sufficient for seeds of doubt.
People hold it against Treliving that he signed Neal, but you expect nobody will view him as having a role in this outcome? Numerous questions were already raised about due diligence and process by media in the press conference. It's the nature of the GM's job to live or die by the outcomes of decisions, and it often is not fair. Highly visible, highly public roles are often that way. He is in the entertainment business after all.