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Originally Posted by MattyC
What confuses me is why they keep pumping their chests telling us its a new thing. Doesn't Boston, St. Louis, and Columbus all have these structures? I'm sure there's more.
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St Louis does not, they have a standard President/GM setup.
Columbus does. Based on the way Burke and King have described things, the Oilers were the first team to move in this direction, Columbus was second, and the Flames are third.
Like Shanahan in Toronto, Neely is the full President of the Bruins, in charge of both business and hockey operations. As I understand it, his role is somewhere in between King's and Burke's roles.
Every team in the league has a slightly different organizational structure from every other team in the league, so it's tough to pin down exactly what each role does. The same job title on three different organizations might have three different job descriptions; and the same job description on three different organizations might have three different job titles.