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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
I don't believe Edwards is any more meddling on a day to day basis as any other owner but there's clearly evidence that he doesn't like to give full autonomy to his GM's as Treliving had to fight for it on his second contract and it certainly appears Conroy doesn't have it with information that ownership nixed the Markstrom trade. When it comes to trading a legacy player or bringing in a player with a large salary, I can totally see why an owner may want input but when it comes to a move like trading Markstrom it's really not ideal that the owner would get involved. Clearly it was a deal the GM wanted to make because he thought it would strengthen the organization and the player was asked to move his NMC. If he doesn't trust Conroy enough to make his own trades I would question why he hired him in the first place but this is the way Edwards operates as he doesn't trust those below him when it comes to running the Flames unless it's Darryl Sutter.
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Well this very much reflects my own views, but I sometimes wonder if we blame Edwards for a lot of stuff unfairly.
The GM has to have goals and objectives in place and he also has to sell the plan. Now we know that Treliving, did a lot of work on his own, and as suggested maybe didn't really lean on the management team; So when we look at some of Treliving's moves, acquiring players only to ship them back out again, bringing players that didn't really work for the team, James Neal to Edmonton for Lucic because we needed to do something with that bad contract. Paying several coaches not to coach. I would imagine some of these flops would give Edwards cold feet, and make it hard for him to not get involved. We certainly can't blame Edwards for the players, or the coaches that were brought in.
It just seems like every time there's a little bit of a block, "that must be Edwards fault" , and "that guys maybe a terrible owner". The guy takes a rap for a lot of things but doesn't say much.