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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
I get the feeling Treliving being on the ice for the entire last practice was probably a precursor to his decision being made to move on from the Flames. Really what GM would want to stick around an organization where the coach can openly to the media mock the team he built with no consequence since he's the owners boy?
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Sutter is far from the owner's (representative) boy.
Edwards was the one that didn't want him going back downstairs and being coach again like Sutter wanted after the team never gave Playfair a chance in 2006-2007.
He brought in the former GM, as an assistant GM as a snake in the grass, as a clear message to Sutter.
Edwards was the one who overruled the other owners, who managed to convince Edwards keep Sutter after the 09-10 season, but then couldn't stop Edwards from firing him at the end of Dec 2010, as Sutter had too much control of everything, in his opinion.
Installing and falling for the schtick of the blowhard of a GM was massive mistake that Edwards didn't take long to realize. The only bullet in the former's GM gun wa the promise that his relationship with Brad Richards would have him land Richards to come here. When that didn't occur, the former GM had as much clue and contacts in the league as he did in the years unemployed after Tampa, writing sporadically for Spector's Hockey News. Toss in his treating of Iginla on the way out and his slimy reputation around the league, and then the ROR unmitigated disaster, and Edwards had to clean up the mess by trying to woo Shanahan and then giving Burke a blank cheque to come here and rebuilt the franchise reputation Sutter built, which the former GM sewered.
Ken King had a much better relationship with Sutter, Edwards didn't end up liking the control Sutter had over everything at the end, but again, the grass was far from greener on the other side at the time as he found out.