Bender
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- Sep 25, 2002
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I posted this on the trade thread but this was on the Bobcast yesterday:
As always with the Avs, I think we're getting just part of the story.
I think Josh Kroenke has too much respect for Joe Sakic to essentially "bash at the beach" him, which is essentially what this would amount to.
IF this is 100% true, then I think this changes things significantly and Sakic and Co. are probably living on borrowed time. There may be an internal trade freeze to allow the next guy to take care of that. It's much too late to bring in new people with the expansion draft, the entry draft and free agency all within the next 30 days. It doesn't make much sense and plus, if that were TRULY the case, Kroenke would have found another candidate and hired him a few weeks ago.
What's more reasonable is that while ownership made contact with Dubas, the offer was more than likely to take over all of the Avs operations...eventually. That's also why permission was rescinded. Kroenke wouldn't contact someone behind Sakic's back and have that hanging over his head...Joe would know about it before hand.
I can't imagine a situation where Josh fires Sakic within giving him the chance to step-down first.
That's my take on it.