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Originally Posted by browna
People don't want to hear it, but the Flames have fostered the mentality of players having a big say in the next coach and how the team is run day to day. Inmates run in the asylum if you will, it that sounds too scary to some, buts it's essentially what's going on. All good until the coach starts pushing buttons to try and get players and the team into a different gear.
Last time meant that the team kept Ward after the playoff loss to Dallas and they wasted the next season as result.
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The timing of that always screamed someone turned them down leaving them with little left but to bring back Ward to me.
Hinted it wouldn't take long. Took over a month. Then Ward confirmed the day after Laviolette was hired in Washington.