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Adam Messages: 6766
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CrudeRemarks wrote on Thu, 09 May 2019 12:55 |
philly boy wrote on Thu, 09 May 2019 12:07 |
CrudeRemarks wrote on Wed, 08 May 2019 10:31 | Lol, on Ken Holland's bio on the Oilers website, they felt the need to specifically state that he has full autonomy:
"In this role, Holland will oversee all hockey operations for the Edmonton Oilers with full autonomy, reporting directly to OEG CEO Bob Nicholson."
https://www.nhl.com/oilers/team/coaches-management
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My god, that is embarrassing. Why is this franchise so utterly stupid and laughable in every single thing they do...
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I was thinking about this. Sports franchises are an anomaly in that they are basically "small" family businesses, except that they are worth hundreds of millions of dollars. I bet a lot of them don't have documented processes like big corporations would. So every time you're doing something you are winging it regardless of whether that something is a hiring, a firing, financial analysis (like managing a salary cap). Poorly run ones, and I obviously include ours in that group, would continue to repeat mistakes because they don't have best practices in place.
I'm also generalizing here but i bet a significant portion of the "executive" on both hockey ops and the other side don't have much accountability. Bad managers = bad employees = bad product.
So i guess the lack of success is not that surprising. Or at least it shouldn't be.
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They also have a bad tendency to hire people not for their skills at their current job, but because of what they did previously in a completely different role. I think if you looked at teams across you'd find the org charts are chalk full of former players, who don't really have experience at the roles they're filling.
This leads to a couple other dysfunctions. They're often failing badly, and are afraid of admitting that they're out of their depth (lest they also end up out of a job). Thus they don't want to have more competent people around them that might outperform them.
Secondly, they have a tendency to feel more comfortable in the company of like-thinking individuals, so they tend to hire others with the same viewpoints and skillsets - which usually means more former players. Again, part of this is that they don't feel confident that they'll be right if it comes to a conflict, so better to just build a group that all agrees with each other and then it's harder to pinpoint who's to blame for the things that go wrong...
Lastly, there's a weird skew for salary expectations, because these guys all have made big dollars playing the game. You end up with weird anomalies for salaries (ie. Coffey making $500K to be a part-time assistant coach), which hurt the team's finances and ability to grow other parts of the organization.
I do find it interesting that even the media believes that the teams somehow owe it to their alumni to hire from their ranks...a good soldier player should have some cushy landing spot within the organization. It just isn't conducive to a good corporate culture, and it's prioritizing nepotism over winning. Maybe it sounds cold, but I think that it's on players (and possibly the PA) to find their ways after their hockey days are done. There will be a small percentage who may excel coming back in to the game, but they should go and build a different skill set at a level far below the NHL, and their salaries should adjust to their new role.
If the Oilers ran the team's management as a meritocracy, they likely are in a much, MUCH better position today.
"Thinking that a bad team's best players are the reason the team is bad is the "Tambellini re-signing Lennart Petrell" of sports opinions." @Woodguy55
#FireLowe #FireBobbyNicks #FireKenHolland #FireKeithGretzky
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