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Originally Posted by All In Good Time
Serves Drury right. Always seemed rather full of himself and unable to make tough situations better in a professional manner
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I'd opine it's some of an ego, but also it may be one of the harder markets to come into and shine. Drury really had no head office experience. He very likely went the Shanahan route, kissed up to someone, they liked his jib, and next thing you know he has a high ranking position. Now he has to put up results, and it's more than just talking business, it's assembling the scouting, handling the cost allocations, dealing with agents, negotiating with other teams, etc. It's pretty clear he wanted to put his stamp on the team and a few years in he has to do that. I do think dropping Truba was a good move, but it's pretty clear he's ruffling some feathers and it wouldn't surprise me if agents are leaking info. In no way I'm saying Drury is right, but pro sports is a dirty environment. It seems like a lot of things conspire against GMs - agents trying to pull quick ones, owners demanding immediate results even when team's aren't ready, players at times cashing it in. It's a really odd place to be. Sometimes guys just don't have the communication right to be able to come down to the players level and be straight with them. It's weird because these management types seem to manage up, but can't bring themselves to also manage downward. We seen it with Treliving when Johnny and Tkachuk were sulking a few years ago, and you see it elsewhere. Conroy seems to have that servant leadership quality down right.