You might be correct, but I have a difficult time seeing that. If he were hired, it would be more so because of the legend than his body of work over the last decade. I do agree that he will never get canned, that was more a hypothetical. He doesn't have the nads to do what Dave did.
The problem for us Detroit fans is that our perspective is pretty polarized. I read your posts regularly, so I think you have a pretty even take, but most either love or hate Holland. I'm a hater, but for some different reasons than most.
Do you think he would be hired for any specific skill set? My only guess is that name recognition with recruitment and FA contract talks might get him hired.
A team would want to add him to their organization in some capacity. He has a lot of contacts, experience, knowledge of the game, even if he has been a less effective GM the last 5 years or so.
If you were bringing him in as a front office guy, I think you would benefit in a big way from his ability to hire and develop front office members (Yzerman, Nill, Fischer, etc.), and then there is where he all got started, his ability to weigh in on scouting, prospects, and the draft.
If he only wanted to settle for a GM job, I'm not sure how much his reputation may or may not have suffered in the eyes of his peers there. Maybe he'd have to hold out for a little for a GM job, there's pretty limited availability for those roles as well. But if he got fired, I think you'd have massive interest from other teams on adding him to their front office. I mean I can't think of why a team wouldn't. He'd probably go to Toronto and team up with Babcock and Shanahan like tomorrow.
My only concern with him going to OUR front office is that I think we need more of a fresh voice and someone who is not just agreeable to how things have always been. But at the same time, the guy is a great advisor to have for some of the reasons I listed above.
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