vagabond wrote on Sat, 18 May 2019 16:34

Magnum wrote on Fri, 10 May 2019 15:15 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 Also, how is he "fully autonomous" if he's reporting to Bob Nicholson?! Regarding Bobby Nicks, he had 0 experience in NHL management prior to moving over to the Oilers. The only involvement he had with the NHL was negotiating to have them in the Olympics, which is pretty huge, but not a showing of good on-ice production. Why did it take me so long to look this up? He helped produce Gold metals for Canada. In other words, he was able to produce a good level of winning with the deepest talent pool in the world without any budget or cap restrictions. sorry to split hairs here--but while Bobby Nic has no NHL hockey management experience he did have 40 years of Hockey management at different levels and he has always been on the "making money side of things". HE created many grass roots hockey organizations from the ground up in the 70's and turned around hockey canada making it profitable and building a business structure that they still use today

Too bad he never hired a GM in all that time or he might have gotten things right the first time here

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