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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
That was the Feaster era when he had those roles and so very little hockey experience in hockey ops.
I’m all for hiring people outside of ex players but I also like having people who have been on a pair of skates and know which end of the stick to hold.
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Being the President & CEO of CSEC is not running the day to day operations of the hockey team.
For example The Tampa Bay Lighting are run by Vinik Sports Group, their CEO has absolutely no hockey operations knowledge. (
https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-griggs-9804b78)
This is common practice in the sports industry - you have a broader organization that manages all the "business" aspects of the org and really have nothing to do with the day to day hockey operations of the team. Running CSEC is so much more than just running the hockey team...funny part is right now on the Flames executive team website there is no mention of anybody that actually does anything related to running the actual hockey department
https://www.nhl.com/flames/team/executive
The real question I think is actually more why the team hasn't had a President of Hockey Operations since Burke left - since in the org structure that the Flames have that would generally be a necessary role that prevents exactly what just happened with Treliving from happening, and all of a sudden you are left with no real management structure for the Flames.