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Originally Posted by GioforPM
It’s crazy how many people want to ascribe some sort of backroom power struggle to this. reporting was that DS was in der consideration in the offseason. Murray Edwards is not a hands on guy with respect to internal decisions. He is hands on with respect to choosing who he thinks is the right guy to handle an operation and the bottom line. I’ve personally overheard him tell Flames management that he didn’t want to be involved in decisions about such things other than he’d approved a budget, and it was theirs to manage.
Did owners call Treliving when the team wasn’t doing well, to see what the plan was? Maybe. Did Treliving ask them what they thought about Sutter, especially whatever his ask was? Certainly since it would have been a new budget item (and they are still paying Ward). Did they direct him to hire Sutter “or else”? Nah.
It’s funny how it’s gone from “the owners are too cheap to hire an experienced coach” to “the owners forced Treliving to hire an experienced coach”. In a year where revenues are flat and a coaching change means zero increased attendance.
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This is my thinking. Recent frustrations with the team have led to this narrative having the inertia that it does if you ask me, as many people had seemingly soured on Tree to such a great extent. I wouldn’t doubt that ownership was involved in this dialogue to some degree, but the whole “it looks like they’ve put Brad’s chair atop the trap door in this presser!” angle strikes me as a bit of a reach.
I’ve been in the “keep Treliving camp” throughout this saga, as stability in that office is paramount for me and trumps taking the chance on canning the GM and hoping a new guy can do better. The range of leeway granted to a GM needs to be far wider than that of a coach given the time horizon they’re usually looking at, and Treliving’s made enough moves I’ve liked over his tenure that I trust allowing him to learn from mistakes and fiddle around a bit. There are exceptions of course (eg. Feaster isn’t a GM I’d have been comfortable handing the keys to for 7-10 years), but it’s obvious that ownership to some extent has faith in Treliving despite a couple of rather questionable coaching hires.
In any case, stoked that Darryl’s on board and am excited for next week!