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Originally Posted by TOfan
I don't think this makes much sense. Treliving has two years left on his deal and we're just coming off of a year with zero gate/concession revenues. It's not going to be cheap to fire your GM. Also, if they had planned to fire him and ownership made the decision to hire Sutter (I am sure they were in on the discussion), they why wouldn't they have done it when Sutter was hired and let Conroy or Maloney act as interim GM. If you're going to make a change, why wait?
It was also discussed that the Flames spoke to Sutter in the summer. For one reason or another it didn't happen then. Treliving has also been on record that if he was going to make a change, Sutter was who he wanted. This would also explain the 2-3 week period between the end of year to when they formally announced Ward was coming back as HC.
I think Treliving has this year to right the ship. I would imagine, and Friedman stated this in a recent 31 thoughts, that groundwork has been laid for this upcoming offseason. If someone else comes in, you're staring at ground zero. highly unproductive from an organizational perspective.
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Those are good points, and likely what will happen.