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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
Being the President & CEO of CSEC is not running the day to day operations of the hockey team.
For example The Tampa Bay Lighting are run by Vinik Sports Group, their CEO has absolutely no hockey operations knowledge. ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-griggs-9804b78)
This is common practice in the sports industry - you have a broader organization that manages all the "business" aspects of the org and really have nothing to do with the day to day hockey operations of the team. Running CSEC is so much more than just running the hockey team...funny part is right now on the Flames executive team website there is no mention of anybody that actually does anything related to running the actual hockey department https://www.nhl.com/flames/team/executive
The real question I think is actually more why the team hasn't had a President of Hockey Operations since Burke left - since in the org structure that the Flames have that would generally be a necessary role that prevents exactly what just happened with Treliving from happening, and all of a sudden you are left with no real management structure for the Flames. |
Again I was referring to hockey ops, not Bean. Hockey ops shouldn't be all ex NHLers, far from it. But Feaster and Holditch were extremes to the opposite end and I would not consider either of them to be students of the game.
But your last point is a good one. We are left wondering what happens when Maloney hires a GM. Is he then gone? Because it sounds like the org's first inclination was to make him GM, so it doesn't seem they value the POHO role all that much.
And as I mentioned, I heard nothing from Bean about why they think Maloney will make a great POHO. Not a word.