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Originally Posted by GioforPM
To run the finances, the building, the office staffing? Bean is from Saskatoon. I imagine he's played the game a bit.
I tried to look up Ken King's hockey db but couldn't find one.
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Ken King prior to the Flames hire was the Publisher of the Calgary Herald, as others have mentioned or more less working his way up from delivering papers in HS.
While his legacy at the paper, including the strike, is complicated for some, he was an instrumental part of Calgary boosterism in the 90s and that work only continued with the Flames.
Not every qualified business exec is going to a huge part of impacting the culture of a city in their roles like King was.
It doesn't mean that Bean isn't a qualified CEO. He just wasn't put in a great position in that presser, and yeah, maybe it should have been Edwards, but that's not his style, and he didn't set either Don or John up for success.
As others have said Don can't introduce himself.
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Originally Posted by hah
He is? His hockey team tells me otherwise? 
Missing all that sweet playoff revenue. |
For what it's worth two of his three hockey teams made the playoffs, and so did his football team, and his lacrosse team did last season too.
And I think the Flames Foundation is doing pretty well too via CSEC.
(I know the Flames are the largest money makers of those though, I hear you)