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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
It's definitely an excuse. IMO it's one of the easier Canadian markets to be GM compared to Vancouver, Edmonton (have had 6 GM's since Darryl Sutter was Flames GM), Ottawa, Toronto, and Montreal. Arguably the softest media in the all the Canadian cities that's not bought and paid for like Edmonton. Treliving has had five seasons where the team has stagnated from when he got here and outside of a fan poll here his seat is ice cold. His seat would even be hotter in a some US markets for that matter. It's one of the cushier jobs in the league IMO as if you simply make the playoffs annually or every 2nd year the owners are generally satisfied.
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There are two different things there though.
It might be an easier market from a media/ownership expecations perspective but that doesn't make it any easier to attract a player to come to Calgary instead of Las Vegas, Miami, or even Colorado.
So sure expecations are easier, but that doesn't make actually attracting talent and building a team any easier.