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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
The whole braintrust weighed in on the deal. Multiple people involved - Treliving, Conroy, Maloney, Bean - have attested to the discussions around the deals and the direction of the team. There were only a handful of deals on the table, and the Flames brass - almost certainly including Edwards - rejected the rebuild option (which is what the Hurricanes were reportedly offering). That left only two real offers - the Panthers and Blues - and by all accounts the Florida deal was far better.
I know it's a lot easier to scapegoat when you imagine that trades are just two GMs cutting deals on the phone together. They're not. The major decisions the Flames brass have made over the last few years have been collective. And most of the people who made them are still at the helm of the team.
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I get your overall point, but the front office has had a lot of changes.
Gone are BT, Chris Snow (tragically), and Bean.
IN are Nonis, Hanlon (to a hockey ops role) and Iginla
We've also heard that BT didn't always involve his staff in decisions, and was more of a one man show.
The key for me is what did the team and Conroy specifically learn from some of the errors of past regimes.
But the front office has undergone change.