Peter Chiarelli End Of Season Press Conference?
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Del Preston
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Hope so. 12 of the 14 other GMs who missed the playoffs have already spoken. Buffalo's Botterill is speaking tomorrow, and Ottawa's Dorion has a town hall with season ticket holders tonight and is scheduled to speak to the media later this week.
Soul8
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sTAUUFER SAID TODAY ON oILERS NOW HE EXPECTS IT TO BE anywhere from later this afternoon to sometimes later this week, not likely to be this afternoon, but an outside chance.
ThreeOfAPerfectPair
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Chia gonna hold a surprise presser and only tell Gene about it.
Yikes. When even Baghdad Bob has to give a wishywashy answer, you know **** is about to go down.
I'm hoping the real answer is "Whenever Paul Fenton signs on the dotted line".
Most of the other non-playoff teams have had their GMs address the media already. Is Chia even in the city? Is it too much to ask to be with the team even at the end of a season?
Brad Treliving did his yesterday on top of meeting with the media prior in the week.
Brad Treliving did his yesterday on top of meeting with the media prior in the week.
Soul8
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After not showing his face all year long, what a coward.
At the trade deadline he refused to answer any questions outside of the deadline specifically and he hasn't been seen in town or even whispered anything to the media since.
This is seriously ridiculous. Do your damn job and face the music, the Flames GM has talked to the media multiple times this week alone and been around, not in hiding.
The Edmonton media isn't even tough, all they're going to do is lob soft ball questions, just do your freaking 30 minutes and get it over with, you can fly out right afterwards and run back to Boston or where ever you've been hiding out.
I really feel like TMacT was giving us a hint when he said that there were still "evaluations to be done" by people above him. That would imply Katz and Bobby Burgers are looking at something/someone, and there is only one level between them and the coaching staff...
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BoldNewLettuce
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None of us should be surprised by his silence. Looking back on his three year track record, no matter who you are, it is somewhere between sub .500 and the worst this league has seen in a decade plus. Sure some of his moves may yet pay off but with present optics he simply must be fired. This is happening. It has to. Sad day yada yada but time for a new GM. Thank you Bob, firing is tough but it is the right time. Three strikes your out.
Now that he's delayed this, I hope the media actually grows a pair for once and puts him on the spot. It's obvious he's been delaying this and ducking the media all year long.
I'd love to imagine this organization actually being competent and doing the right thing for once, but I doubt it.
ChaoticOrange
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Yep - say what you will about McLellan, he always has the balls to face the music and answers any question asked of him.
Our cowardly media never asks anything of substance... but that’s not Todd’s fault.
KeithIsActuallyBad
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That wasn't a presser he had the other day, he organized softball tryouts and the media made the team.
I honestly don't care if it's any of the three Fs (Fenton, Futa, Fitzgerald). Just someone from a successful org who knows how to build a winning team.
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ChaoticOrange
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I said it earlier this year, but this organization has absolutely zero sense of accountability.
Pittsburgh fired Shero after a 2nd round loss. They fired Johnston in December 2015, after he put up a record of 58-37-15, or 131 points in 110 games (averages to roughly 98 points in an 82 game season).
That’s accountability. That is sending the message that the only acceptable outcome is winning Cups.
ChaoticOrange
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you can’t be naive enough to think that the coach has any say whatsoever on who comes out to media scrums.
PBandJ
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We don't need a rocket scientist GM. We need someone who won't make catastrophic mistakes like getting destroyed in trades. Anyone who can do that is automatically a huge upgrade.
And at least Shero got some leash because he made two Cup finals, one Cup win by Crosby's 4th year, and had a valid excuse in Crosby suffering from concussion issues afterwards. He never really lost any huge trades or made any huge blunders in signings either.
All we've done is beat a Sharks team that had Joe Thornton playing on one leg and Logan Couture playing with a broken face.
KeithIsActuallyBad
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Not at all. That wasn't a shot at the coach. It was a shot at the media that doesn't know what a tough question looks like.
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