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Originally Posted by Calgary4LIfe
This is what I think as well, and I also think the term 'hockey guy' is also kind of dumb. What is a 'hockey guy'. How do you consider someone a hockey guy? There is obviously no "Hockey Guy Degree" being offered at any university or college that I know of.
So do you have to play in the NHL at some point? JP21 got laughed at. Others never made it but are 100% accepted as hockey guys.
Maybe you had to play to at least another level? Ok, how many games? How many years do you have to play hockey and in what leagues to be considered a hockey guy? Up until he got into coaching, Scotty Bowman's record was pretty underwhelming, but there are zero people who don't consider him a hockey guy. That one is easy.
What about Feaster? Was he a hockey guy? So he may never be a hockey guy because he never played junior hockey, or pee wee? What about him being a GM of an AHL team and winning a championship? Does that make him a hockey guy? What about winning the Stanley Cup as a GM? Does that make him a hockey guy? Is there a threshold of total games managed, or number of seasons, or number of teams, or number of championships won?
Personally, I don't really care if the team I cheer for hires a non-hockey guy to do something, as long as he is competent at doing it. Being physically gifted enough to get and play in the NHL to me has very little bearing on how capable one is at managing a team, and even being a coach (Wayne Gretzky says hi, but there are definitely good NHL players that became good NHL coaches too).
I just don't even know how to qualify 'hockey guy' to begin with.
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Thing about Feaster - not only did he not play, he had no business management experience, and precious little legal experience (which was his training) before he walked into an AHL GM job (which was not only managing the team but also the building). Then he joined TB and sort of fell into the GM role by attrition after Demers and Dudley built the team and Torts took it off the ground.