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Kr55 Messages: 9727
Registered: May 2002
Location: Edmonton
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RDOilerfan wrote on Mon, 08 April 2019 13:45 |
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Kr55 wrote on Mon, 08 April 2019 10:40 | It is definitely stupid that Gretzky was there. All he really did at the conference was try to sell himself and treat this like an audition, even teasing his has a great plan. That's pretty dumb if Bob is making an honest effort to find the best possible guy.
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Why was it stupid for Gretzky to be there? If he is not, who's going to answer any player related questions? The media guys asked specific player related questions. They asked about the trades, they asked about the draft, they asked about what the current team is missing. ALL player personnel stuff. Someone involved in the hockey side needed to be there and right now, with no GM, he's the guy.
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If you are a great GM candidate and you're looking for a nice place to land, do you choose the place where there's two other guys who used to hold the role in the organization (with a nebulous structure that makes it unclear if you're slotted above or below them) plus another former GM in a similar nebulous position AND the interim GM, who's announced he wants the position you're applying for, and who'll almost certainly still be expected to play SOME role if you are hired. Oh, and he's the brother of the Vice-Chair, who the owner loves.
The optics on bringing him out here aren't good. And they should have had a better plan for what he'd say if he was asked about the job search - "I can't really comment on that" would have been a hell of a lot better than "I want the job."
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I am a reasonable person and can have his mind changed when given a good argument. So I am willing to listen.
The team currently has no GM in place, they have Gretzky who was the assistant GM, currently handling the duties at this time. They don't have a POHO either so Nicholson is in that role. They are having a year end presser which is required. The media is going to ask questions about players and pro hockey stuff. Nicholson will know some things but he won't be able to properly answer them all. As a fan of the team, I personally want to hear some good answers on some of the player stuff. I assume most people did as well. I sure as hell don't want to hear anyone fluffing past a question or saying "Well I don't really know, I will let the new GM answer that when he gets here." The new GM could be a guy that wasn't here. So how can he give an answer on anything that happened when he wasn't hear? So since you are not a fan and think having Gretzky out there was a mistake, who else is going to answer ANY hockey questions of what happened? They need someone. So who?
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Did I miss some really insightful comment that Gretzky made that Nicholson couldn't have handled? I don't think there was anything there.
As I implied above, if I'm running the team, I'm more concerned with the search for the best possible management candidates and how this impacts them rather than whether the fans got the best possible answer about how the players thinking losing sucks. The media didn't even really ask many questions about the players, other than referencing McDavid's frustration and asking about his role in the impending changes (or non-changes) in the organization.
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You obviously missed that Keith wants the GM job and that he has a plan that he can't reveal to us until he's the permanent GM. Bob couldn't have handled giving us that info nearly as good as Keith could in person.
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Good or Keith that he wants a GM job. Shouldn't anyone working in any job be striving to advance himself? Doesn't mean he gets the job or is the right guy for it.
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The point is that Bob didn't need to put him in the position where he doesn't have a guy auditioning for the GM job sitting next time him while Bob talks about all the work he's involved in trying to find the next GM.
Of course he wants the job. This just wasn't the time for him to be auditioning for it in front of Oilers fans all PO'd about another failed season and how their team looks aimless, and how it looks like the OBC are gonna just do the usual and hire the closest guy to try to solve over a decade of failure.
"We need to get better immediately. That starts today"
- Lowe, 2013
"Next year I would forecast as another developmental year"
- MacT, 2015
5 x $5,000,000
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