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Old 09-08-2020, 04:51 PM   #429
Jiri Hrdina
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Thanks Bingo. I hadn’t seen that stuff before. I would say that if Flames ownership has questions about BT, hiring someone over the top of him would be a possible solution and that they wouldn’t have negotiated away that right. That’s an expensive solution though and since he’s no longer a novice GM, likely not realistic. I do stand by my speculation that BT hurt himself if in fact he asked for a Neal buyout.

Now I would say promoting both BT and Conroy would be a very strange idea. That’s something you do when you’ve achieved an abundance of success.
For me if you have to hire someone over the top, because you have questions about your GM, then you don't have the right GM.
Unless you are re-defining the role, as it relates to president of hockey ops, or something like that. Which some teams have done.
But it comes down to BT being the guy making the hockey decisions. If you can't give him that - he's not the right guy and he's probably not going to accept less autonomy.
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