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Originally Posted by Textcritic
Ex players whom have predominantly cut-their teeth working within NHL front offices well prior to their promotions to the top job.
You asserted 1) it is the norm for teams to "fast track" former players into top executive roles. This is false. You asserted 2) that the league would be better served to graduate scouts into these roles, which as I have demonstrated is something that they already do with considerable regularity.
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Why do you focus so much time and effort in your contrarian posts? I appreciate your opinion but I do not appreciate you calling my opinion false. No conversation like this can start without first mentioning Garth Snow. Right from playing to GM. BOOM! Plenty of these guys like Joe Nieuwendyk went directly from playing into management bypassing proper scouting. Ron Francis went from the Raleigh Youth Hockey Association to director of hockey operations with the Hurricanes. Don Sweeney retired in 2004 and in 2006 he joined the Bruins as the team’s director of player development. Joe Sakic after taking two years off after retirement was named executive advisor of the Avalanche. Even Conroy got hired directly as a special assistant to the GM after retiring. Honestly I could go on and on about how many of these guys didn’t pay their dues in proper talent evaluation as you don't become a good evaluator of talent overnight. It takes years and sometimes decades to become a top scout and talent evaluator of talent. As Jammies said earlier the NHL has always been a big old boys club.
Another thing that has to be noted is that unlike most other sports most NHL players education usually tops out at high school diploma due to the nature of drafting 18 year olds. What other industries do multimillion dollar business operations get placed into the hands of people with high school diplomas? At least a lot of NFL and NBA players have business degrees.