Something to consider with the Shannon tweet.
He has this idea that Dundon sees himself as capable of being a GM all on his own. Now I really doubt that Shannon has any idea what’s going on between Dundon’s ears. He doesn’t have those relationships as far as I can see, so he’s pulling that story from some kind of leak. But there’s undoubtedly some core of truth to it, or it wouldn’t have come to him in the first place.
Now, what we’re actually getting from the horse’s mouth is a desire to get better at the personnel side of the house, in the context of a guy who self-admittedly doesn’t have much of a clue about the sport.
By way of trying to make all of that information make sense (and not come to a nonsense conclusion like Dundon negotiating trades) I think the answer lies in the other side of the GM’s job — sales and marketing, building relationships with the media, dealing with the arena authority, building the organizational staff. In other words, the side of the job that Dundon has already been visibly doing since he got here.
Karmanos has been pretty much the exact opposite type of owner, staying so far from the day-to-day operations that Rutherford pretty much ran the entire show by himself until Waddell arrived.
It’s easy to imagine that transitioning from PK to TD will mean a lot of modified job descriptions in the front office, first and foremost that of the GM. My guess is that the next guy is going to be responsible for very little other than managing hockey talent. Dundon is going to be taking over a lot of the other responsibilities — hence the content of the Shannon tweet.
If I’m right, then the next shoe to drop might not be Bill Peters... but Don Waddell.
Anyway, my guess as to what’s happening behind closed doors on Edwards Mill Rd.
