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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
Man your crap is old. Anyone that doesn't have your opinion has had the wool pulled over their eyes.
Rationale people can have different opinions.
Instead of berating them maybe learn to discuss with them.
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Discuss things with them? You don't think that was tried??? Jiri, come on, hold up the mirror for second. Using you as an example, you dug your heels in and refused to acknowledge the obvious over his tenure. It takes two to have a discussion and a willingness to acknowledge the facts and the dependencies. A great example has always been the state of the development system. Someone points out that the system is in terrible shape you trot out it's not the poor drafting, it's the lack of draft picks - like the GM had nothing to do with the lack of picks. You can't have a conversation about something if someone doesn't see the connection between the two events and understand the guy controls both measures. Even though all sorts of media experts support the Flames have a poor development system and drafting has been historically poor the obvious is ignored.
You can look and see the same thing happened with the trade history, with the contract discussions, with the handling of Gaudreau and failure to get a contract done while the team had leverage, with the inability to find a coach, with cap management, and so on and so on. It was very obvious that the guy was middling at best, but the whole team sports thing kicked in and he became an epic manager. We are still seeing it. Even though the team has been left in horrible shape as an organization, the same tired defenses still come out. I mean, he went on to become the GM of the Toronto Maple Leafs! How do you have a rational conversation with that? Even on the heels of the Athletic's fan survey, and the Flames being dead last in confidence in management - as voted by their own fans (opposition fans had us at second worst!) - we can make the admission that this team has been poorly managed over the last decade and the guy who was in charge did nothing to improve the organization? And I'm the one whose crap is old?
