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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
I wish this is how the Flames operated. I truly do. This organization needs to be more brutal about asset management and always assume the players will walk.
But given the pattern of these across several GMs I have a hard time blaming the GMs involved.
It sits above them in my view.
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That could well be the case (I suspect it probably is) but it is pretty hard for the existing guy to reset expectations around these issues. He was presumably the guy in the room not really pushing back with an alternative viewpoint. Far easier for a new GM to come in and say “hey, you own the Calgary Flames. A small market team that will always have a hard time attracting UFA’s or even retaining your own players. Our path to success is to load up on young guys and make educated long term bets on some of them before they hit UFA”. Not sure if a new GM would have any success but I suspect they would have a better chance than the guy who has been in the room and gone along with the erroneous path for years now.