SirClintonPortis
ProudCapitalsTraitor
The skills of portfolio management is absolutely critical for a GM due to forced obsolescence via the "cap crunch", the presence of many "lemons" in the various markets for players, etc. The slightest overpayments can add up into binding the team into not being able to acquire a valuable asset. Bergevin's presser basically confrims his bipolar nature. He is just savage as a Pollock in dealing with assets he doesn't care about personally or look down upon, like a Subban, Markov, Radulov, etc, but guys like Gallagher, Danault, Weber, are literally treasured pets and feathers in his cap he wears with pride.I don’t think it’s about being better a business. Who cares, for some “higher education” is important and to others it’s not.
Just because one may have more formal education doesn’t mean they are any better of a person than one anyone else. Like you, I’m “higher educated” but I don’t think I’m any better than those that aren’t. In fact, I’m just a flawed, if not more!
The draft in itself is a game of chance, but the chances can be improved or decrease by the eyes of the people making the picks. George McPhee has developed an excellent record of building the farm because what he peruses usually pans out into results and he commits resources into building a strong team of scounts. Marc Bergevin values things that do not stick and hence the prospect pool here is mostly garbage.
(I'm not bragging, but it's clear my paradigm shaped by my major is expressing itself).