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Originally Posted by Vinny01
I am making an assumption they have been grooming him to take the job eventually. He has been around from Feaster-Burke-Treliving and has a relationship with ownership. Promoting from within is commonplace. I could be wrong but it makes sense to me. Treliving has a contract are they going to go spend big on someone else? I am not saying that is what I want but I think it is a logical and realistic scenario that will play out if they did fire Tree
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And sometimes this works out pretty well. The Boston Bruins replaced Cup-winning Peter Chiarelli with in-house executive Don Sweeney in 2015. It was a hire that at the time appeared really puzzling, but in retrospect has worked out very well.
All this is to suggest that none of us knows what the Flames have in Craig Conroy; this also works to Jiri's point.
For my money, the only reason now to move on from Treliving is to hire a better, more experienced manager. Maybe someone like Dean Lombardi, but I am not convinced this is a positive step forward. Being a GM is hard, and I believe that in the NHL many are reached too early by reactionary and impatient owners. Some of the best ones have had years and years to hammer away at their teams.
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