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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Brad's contract didn't expire until June I believe but since he wasn't going to agree to an extension it was best for both parties to mutually agree to terminate so the Flames could move forward in finding a replacement. At the end of the day Treliving still quit the Flames.
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Yep.
But given the timing of his departure, the Flames didn't lie. They just spun what happened.
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Originally Posted by Toonage
Acceptable loss? If thats the price we had to pay to get Sutter out and start completely fresh I'll accept it. Celebrate it, even.
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I don't know. It's painful because Sutter is a good coach, and Treliving is a good GM - but whatever the hell happened throughout the course of the last 12 months seemingly ruined their ability to work together. I still think the ideal situation would have been Flames announce a rebuild with Sutter and Treliving on board and committed to it.
We'd seen Sutter kind of openly dump on the roster before in press conferences and stuff about how they don't have talent. He also openly praised and called Monahan "that's a captain"...so what was it that broke things down? Was he against the Tkachuk trade? The Monahan trade? What did he want? I don't understand what the breaking point between Tree and Sutter would have been.