Flames and putting on their big boy uniforms.

As I mentioned in my last post I was really fortunate
to attend a Flames Season Ticket Holders Luncheon
with a co-worker (who has great season tickets) this afternoon.

The highlight was listening to Ken King (President of the Flames)
speak. Now, I do have a little issue with him as he was
pretty hard on pj wearing, basement dwelling bloggers
and their backseat coaching but as I am not in my basement,
(but am wearing pajamas)
and there is no way my faithful readers are interested
in hockey talk I think 1 out of 3
will keep me out of his blogger doghouse.

Anyways, his blogger issues aside
I found his talk fascinating. Now, there
was no earth shattering revelations about
the inner workings of the team and most of
the things he said were "top secret" I knew
from the media/the dreaded twitterers
but I appreciated his honesty about the
fact they made mistakes and any decisions
that were made (right or wrong) were
because they were convinced that the structure
was in place for the Flames to win.

It didn't work.

They know that, we know that.

now what?

well this is where it gets intriguing.

There are changes in the air.
Of course that top secret info was not shared.

However, one way or the other,
win or lose this season
the summer will bring changes and
it appears it is time to shake up the system.

Now at the risk of ending up in the
King Blogger doghouse and losing
my non-hockey readers,
I offer this unsolicited advise:

Do not give up on this year until
it is done. Just because it is tough
don't take the easy way out and
trade, blow up the team etc...

Instead, tell the team to put on their big boy uniforms
get out there, face the adversity, work with what they have
and get the job done. End of Story, no excuses..

then in the Summer, do what needs to be done
but until then....Get er done.

that's it, all I will say on the subject.

One last thing though from his talk,
it is interesting to me that one of the issues
the Flames organizations has, is a lack of culture.
The need to find, define and implement what they
want their team culture to be is a priority.

This is something I know we struggle with in my office
and I would think most companies would agree that it is
an ongoing issue.

It goes to support what I have felt for the last 3 years
is that the problem with the Flames is not the talent or the age of the team
but an issue with the dynamics of the team and instead of
spending time spinning the wheels on getting more/different talent
we (the Flames) need to concentrate on the mental aspect and
adapt this motto from the great cinematic classic, High School Musical ...

Get your, Get your, head in the game.