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Old 05-08-2019, 08:42 AM   #243
Erick Estrada
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Originally Posted by JackIsBack View Post
Well... if Holland truly believes that Gretzky is good, then it could be genuine, we just don't know (yet). You must take a page out of Steve Job's handbook (back in 1997) here and get everyone to line up and justify their projects (work) and axe the ones that don't fit your vision and plan. You can't just fire everyone before evaluating them, are they good, are they in the proper position, can they help... then proceed to axe the bad apples. Steve kept 1 project out of every 10... I think the Oiler's would have a similar ratio - Jony Ive was among those Steve kept... a diamond among the rocks, you don't want to rid your organization of those.
You are comparing a guy who took over a company of thousands of employees to which he wouldn't know most of them by name or what projects they were working on to a guy coming into an NHL team where everyone knows everyone by name and their career's work is well documented. How hard is it to look at the AHL roster and junior prospect base and come to a conclusion about how scouting and development has been handled? How hard is it to look at the NHL roster and evaluate pro scouting and salary cap management? It's really not that hard which is why you see a lot of incoming GM's in professional sports clean house.
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