May 31, 2006
The Triumph Of "Moneypuck"
After seeing a pattern in the most recent NHL GM hirings, James Mirtle had this to say:
At this point, only 12 of the NHL's current 29 GMs — the Islanders post is vacant — played more than a handful of games in the NHL...
It all makes you wonder: Is hockey's next great mind more likely to be sitting in a rink or buried in law school texts?
And how surreal is it that one ramification of Gary Bettman's 'New NHL' is that those guiding teams are beginning to have more in common with the league's commissioner than the players on the ice?
The lawyer from New York may have won in more ways than one.
An interesting shift indeed. I blame Billy Beane and Theo Epstein.
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I called it back in October! Well, I "called it" Moneypuck, anyway. But I was talking about how to exploit inefficiencies, not hiring lawyers to run teams.
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