I don't harbor any ill feelings. There are two sides to every story and it doesn't always come out. Keenan, of course, was here before. He was fired as general manager several months after his Hawks lost the Stanley Cup to Mario Lemieux's Penguins in 1992. I still don't know.
Truth is, what happened then matters now.
Compare that with the streak of four years without the playoffs current GM Mike Smith has extended in wasting Wirtz's rubles. For the record, Keenan and Burns have taken teams to the Stanley Cup finals, Keenan four times, winning it once and making a lot of postseason money for his owners. For the record, no team with the smug Smith as the GM of record has gotten out of the first round. Which makes you wonder where this guy gets off saying what he's saying, and makes you wonder why Wirtz is listening. Keenan is the kind of thing Hawks fans want.