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Originally Posted by ben voyonsdonc
I honestly don’t know why the Flames would block him from interviewing. They get so little out of doing that. The professional hockey world is so small that petty behaviour would almost certainly come back to bite them in the ass. I’m not saying that they didn’t do that but it seems so stupid.
I can definitely see them as wanting to make sure that he can’t be involved in the draft process because of the intel he had from the Flames. That is a perfectly valid request.
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Which is why they would have had the story corrected if the initial reporting was actually wrong.
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Originally Posted by jlh2640
Ya that’s fair. I just didn’t like the piling on attitude and narrative that was out there on many fronts in regards to the flames etc. In the end. Brad got a good job and we got a GM who deserves a shot I think.
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So where is the lost credibility? The facts he reported were likely true. It's fair to quibble that the fact that it is uncommon for teams to deny permission isn't really apples to apples to the unique specifics of this situation, but it's also not irrelevant. At some point the reader has to use their own brain to decide what the ~280 characters of info we get really means...you can not like it and disagree to some degree, but that doesn't mean the reporter has no credibility.
Every story in every news report is probably about 75% accurate. It's the nature of the beast.
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Originally Posted by Fighting Banana Slug
The problem with this framing is the idea in#1 that the Flames were petty in denying permission. I don’t think anyone is arguing that they with held permission, but that it was that the organization was acting like a bunch of babies and did something unprecedented. I think a more accurate description is that they didn’t provide permission because the guy wasn’t fired and was still under contract. Argue the merits of that position as you wish, but I think it disingenuous to suggest it was a question of factual reporting on the permission aspect.
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That's exactly what Grade 10 Ricky over here has been arguing. Your viewpoint is totally valid.