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Originally Posted by Romanrules
I’d say her experience running or managing a company is just as valuable as any hockey experience. If you’re a competent gm, you should attempt to hire the best people around you, even if they are better than you.
Baseball has shown that recycling ‘baseball people’ doesn’t mean they know more than non baseball people. Honesty, hockey needs to find that happy balance between ‘hockey people’ and outside the box thinking.
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Has it?
I haven't followed baseball lately but it seems the best teams are still run by baseball people, supported by people from outside of baseball. Click, Antholopolus, Friedman, Rizzo, Dombrowski all baseball lifers who were the head of the baseball operations for the last number of World Series teams.
I am sure it is possible there is someone but is there an example of someone coming with zero background in their sport (again I may be missing her having this experience) and being successful in winning?
I know this sounds like I am trying to cut down women candidates but shouldn't they at least have a minimal level of skills that we would expect from men? Most people agree that women have been left out of hockey front offices for too long so isn't it realistic to say that it might take a little longer for them to get to the level where they are ready to take over teams?