The days of billion dollar hockey teams being run by hockey people is coming to and end, albeit very slowly.
You want to wonder why the culture of hockey teams is so terrible, look only towards the old white hockey players running the show.
Put professional managers in charge of the team, and have hockey people being in charge of only the scouting and hockey stuff, but being lead by professional business men, you might get somewhere.
That's why guys like Craig Conroy should never sniff being in charge. Great guy, gets along with the players, and likely knows his hockey stuff. But big business, looking at things like salary cap etc.? No way. Now, him being in charge of the hockey stuff may make sense. But not the whole thing.
Now there are some hockey people who are fully qualified to run the entire show.
But guys like Sutter have shown he can run the hockey show, but not the business side like cap management etc.
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