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Originally Posted by PeteMoss
The NHL front office stuff is decent experience and I give credit to him for that. Excluding that... yes I do think playing in the NHL gives you as much as insight into running the entire organization as working in a McDonalds gives you to run the corporation.
Why do only good players get these jobs with no experience? Why does Trevor Linden have the ability to jump right into this job (I will give Shanahan a pass due to his front office experience although I'd rather have a guy who worked in a team's front office) while guys like Scott Walker have to start out in juniors. These hirings are purely PR moves.
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Well being a McDonalds worker requires 0 qualifications, you need to know nothing about the job, business or anything really. At least with the NHL there is some knowledge of hockey and how it is played in order to make it to the NHL and especially to excel for 20 years. The NHL is the elite of the elite in its field whereas McDonalds is the lowest of the low so they shouldn't be comparable just based on that fact alone.
I think a lot of these guys are hired for PR reasons is because that is what a lot of their jobs entail is PR stuff. If Shannahan is picking who to draft and who to sign it is a bad hiring, but that appears to be what Nonis will do. If Shannahan is picking who is the GM to make those day to day decisions then he seems to have a fine background to pick a GM and certainly no less qualifications to do it than other Presidents/Owners that have done it in the past.
Walker has to go to juniors because he seems to be taking a more active role in the day to day operations i.e. coaching/personel and Shannahan (seems) to be a more big picture role.
