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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
I’m good with Mackey needing to earn his spot, that is not my question. If he hasn’t earned his spot yet, why give him a one way contract? I know there’s no salary cap in the AHL, it just reeks of poor management. That’s about a half a million dollars that could go into something like pro scouting which it seems this team could really use.
Signing a guy you have ear marked for the A to a one year deal, overpaying for Gudbranson. I just get tired of the head scratching decisions, even if some can pawn them off as no big deal.
Once upon a time I thought we were getting a moneyball GM who would be steps ahead of his peers. Instead this team still seems to operate in the prehistoric era.
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I've thought about this quite a bit recently. I believe that ownership has allotted the vast majority of their budget on players and very little on support staff.
I don't know the specific numbers around the NHL, but let's assume and say that on average an NHL team allots 75% of their total budget on players and 25% on staff, including front office, coaching staff, scouts, trainers, medical staff, and arena employees, then maybe the Flames allot 90%/10%. I would be very curious to know the actual numbers.
It seems to me like ownership decided that the best way to maximize revenue is to sell fans on players and pinch pennies everywhere else. Our pro scouting staff is tiny. Our amateur scouting staff is not great (although a lot better recently), our GM is definitely a budget GM, Conroy and Pascall seem like budget AGMs, our coaching staff has consistently been a budget staff. Like the number of coaching and assistant coaching roles we have given to first-time coaches at this level is ridiculous.
If the Flames entire budget is limited, which I'm sure it is because all businesses have budgets, then perhaps it would actually be better for ownership to come out and say that we are a 75M cap budget team, for example, and use the remaining budget on a front office, coaching staff and scouting department that can actually maximize the value of a 75M team, rather than have a mismanaged 82M team.