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Originally Posted by traptor
I get what you're saying, but I think we'd all be surprised at how often there are gap, even in high-level professional organizations.
Just because it’s a billion-dollar business doesn’t mean every decision is airtight. Do you honestly look at every move GMs across the league make and think, “Yep, that’s a fully competent, well-thought-out decision”? Mistakes happen all the time, even from seasoned execs, which CC is not yet.
I get that this is "our" organization, and we want to assume the best and that every decision they made is optimal given the information they have but that's just not true. Professionals make mistakes all the time.
There are also other factors that I'm sure we typically don't consider or give much weight to, which they weigh much more heavily and we would probably disagree with. To add onto that, everyone has there biases. I'm sure there's internal disagreements all the time with what the best moves are.
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Sure. I’m not saying everyone is perfect, but you do have to admit that if there are gaps, or mistakes, or misjudgements, the ones that
fans make who aren’t in any of the rooms and, truthfully, don’t even know what goes into the job, are going to be far more frequent and far more obvious.
Like, so what if we don’t think it’s well thought out? How would we even begin to know what went into it?
I get what you’re saying, I just think the Dunning-Kruger effect runs a little too much of the show sometimes in these discussions, where we point out the obvious (even stuff we already know Conroy knows) with the presumption that he may not or wouldn’t know with really no reason to believe that.
He’s been an exec for what? 5-10 years? I think 90% of fans know there is risk of an injury that could derail plans for a player. Of course Conroy knows, it literally
just happened with Mantha lol.
And the comment about him just losing Andersson in free agency when he’s specifically talked about how bad that is and how he won’t be going through it again (like he witnessed with Gaudreau).
Again, not saying we need to treat GMs like they’re perfect, but maybe some fan concerns would be calmed if we just listened to them and trusted they have the most obvious things covered, even though it’s more fun to believe we’re a bit wiser.