Hmmm, not sure what to make of this without knowing which decisions he was involved with. It's quite vague and I can't tell if he supported or opposed the rebuild. On the one hand being negative could mean saying we gotta rebuild we're not getting another cup. On the other hand it could be we need to stick with the core because we can't rebuild fast enough to do it in the Kane/Toews window. Absolutely no idea which way he swung.
But multiple sources said Maciver felt that he had been cut out of the inner circle by Bowman and Al MacIsaac in recent seasons as the internal push and pull between rebuilding and trying to squeeze one last Cup run out of the core intensified. One of the few occasional voices of dissent in the front office, Maciver was marginalized and, according to one team source, eventually ignored altogether.
“They iced him out,” the source said. “They thought he was too negative.”
Maciver was leapfrogged by Kyle Davidson, Mark Eaton and Ryan Stewart in the front-office shakeup. At the time, Bowman tried to frame it as a positive for Maciver.
Hmmm, not sure what to make of this without knowing which decisions he was involved with. It's quite vague and I can't tell if he supported or opposed the rebuild. On the one hand being negative could mean saying we gotta rebuild we're not getting another cup. On the other hand it could be we need to stick with the core because we can't rebuild fast enough to do it in the Kane/Toews window. Absolutely no idea which way he swung.
But multiple sources said Maciver felt that he had been cut out of the inner circle by Bowman and Al MacIsaac in recent seasons as the internal push and pull between rebuilding and trying to squeeze one last Cup run out of the core intensified. One of the few occasional voices of dissent in the front office, Maciver was marginalized and, according to one team source, eventually ignored altogether.
“They iced him out,” the source said. “They thought he was too negative.”
Maciver was leapfrogged by Kyle Davidson, Mark Eaton and Ryan Stewart in the front-office shakeup. At the time, Bowman tried to frame it as a positive for Maciver.
I'd be willing to bet he was in camp McD.
That seemed to be the reason for his demotion after McD got let go, imo.I'd be willing to bet he was in camp McD.
I hope we get the full details eventually in a few years about these in between years.
What if Bowman wanted to rebuild even more aggressively right after the Nashville defeat, but wasn't allowed? In hindsight we could be sitting pretty now had he done that.
Never healthy to have two sides pulling for different directions and in our case it could be that it cost is some prime K/T years.
I mean, wasn’t it reported that he was the middle man between Stan and McD?
IIRC Zawaski said that Maciver would tell Stan to run things by McD
I also remember Zawaski talking about that infamous meeting where Colliton got told to change his system after the players complained and that Stan may not have been there. Was Maciver the one to do it?
Sounds about right. IBM had a team called Special Projects. You could shuffle paper all day, but your career there was over.I'd be willing to bet he was in camp McD.
Am I the only one that thought the team actually played better before that system change, at least defensively? I remember feeling the Hawks were pretty unlucky to have the record they did early in the season. I think they lost a couple games on really flukey goals bouncing in off their own guys.I also remember Zawaski talking about that infamous meeting where Colliton got told to change his system after the players complained and that Stan may not have been there. Was Maciver the one to do it?
He can think that all he wants, but saying we’re wasting TKK seemed ignorant since we had already won three cups at that point.Barstool Chief said last year in a blog that the front office was split into team Stan and team Norm and Stan basically cut everyone off and worked solely with Ryan Stewart and a few others...Seems like Chief was right all along...except he said his sources considered Norm the smarter of the two and his voice within the FO was being tuned out too much by Stan...Chief has always been a "we're wasting Toews/Kane/Keith" guy, maybe his source was in Norm's camp and felt the same, and Stan finally won the power struggle and announced a rebuild so presumably Stan was a rebuild guy and Norm was team retool (along with McD, "core four, etc)...one day we'll know what really happened and it will be a good story on the last 5 years because there are too many unanswered questions atm...