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Originally Posted by FormerPresJamesTaylor
Nonis is a smart hockey guy who's been around the league for years with a lot of experience and connections. Think it's a decent move.
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He's a Brian Burke acolyte without the need to be a spectacle.
I think you get most of the value of Burke's hockey mind while minimizing the negative side.
Burke's negative is that he can be like Sutter.
They can both be an A-hole or they can be wrong, but they can not be both.
When they are wrong, their stubbornness frequently only makes matters worse.
Nonis usually avoids this while working in the background. He also traded Todd Bertuzzi for Luongo.