Fair enough. If I see something concrete about those claims, other than hearsay and anecdotal evidence, then I'd be willing to change my opinion. All I've heard are accusations from less than reputable sources and from people who were fired and might have an axe to grind. Not exactly the creme de la creme of reliability on these kinds of things.
What does being socially awkward have to do with determining someone's character?
Who else was in the front office at that point? Wasn't it just Dorion and McTavish? Pretty weird, nonetheless.
McGuire, who was in the front office wilderness for years and appears to have been a Eugene Melnyk special, and McTavish, a lawyer with no hockey experience whatsoever. Not exactly the best and the brightest working for this organization. The front office was skinny because Melnyk was cheap. Any other owner would have hired a senior executive with experience to be POHO and help Dorion. Instead, all he did was hire people with little to no experience or people desperate for NHL jobs.
Ultimately, he took the fall and now he's been rinsed out of the organization.
Simmer and Wallace aren't the only ones to report that Dorion has treated players poorly in the past, McKenna comes to mind, there's how he treated Murray when they sent him to Belleville which was reported by mainstream media,
"Prime ECF team".
Could you provide some examples of this stuff? I don't remember these "incidents" and I'd like to read what happened.
McKenna has been at Dorion ever since he left Ottawa. I’d he surprised if he wasn’t “Mike Commodoring” this firing. He seems to have been one of many guys that question Dorion a character and communication skills since leaving.
The X timeline is unimaginably bad. I can't figure out how to navigate by date and this guy has 35.6k posts apparently. I have no idea how to find any of the posts that would be used as examples because I don't know what they say or which chronological order they go in.
That is something that I have said in the past as well. It just seemed like too much of a coincidence that every time a good player was up for his pay day contract, that player was moved out. Got to think Melnyk was wanting to keep the team at a certain spending level. He made some bad moves no doubt, and there were other negatives about his tenure, but I think some of these moves Melnyk was behind.
Ya, twitter is a mess these days, especially if you're a holdout and don't have an account,
Why did it prevent you in the first place? I'm so confused as to why people were so obsessed with Dorion that it detracted from their enjoyment of the team on the ice.
This is all I could find on the bolded...
I don't know what the confusion would be. He was informed by both DJ and Dorion that he was being placed on waivers, they changed goalie coaches for him earlier in the year and he was 0-5-0 with 0.890 sv% and 3.26gaa when they made the decision.
That comment isn't as much in reference about Dorion specifically, but he's the final nail in the coffin imo for the Melnyk era being closed (maybe DJ, but he doesn't seem as controversial of a figure) and it was important to move on from that entirely imo. An era of internal promotions only, and hiring's needing to be cheap as the first requirement is one I'm glad is behind us. It was hard to get behind the product and believe in it the last 8-10 years under Melnyk. For Dorion specifically, I didn't believe in his ability to be a net positive as time moved on. He was a guy I actually lobbied to get the job (in part because Randy Lee was the only other rumored candidate), but he lost me and I don't think he's a very good GM all things considered. And tbh, it sounds like some of the noise around him being hard to work with has some legs. Like with Melnyk, too many controversies for me to believe he's innocent in all of them and he just cost the team a significant asset.
