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Relationships are fine as long as those links don't cloud peoples judgement on performance
Hiring a buddy is easy, firing them is very hard and usually ends up in a much longer stay than their performance or results warrant
Hiring a crony is predictable in this business and is disgestible so long as the crony is competent. The issue with Bergevin is that he surrounded himself with too many incompetents, rewarded them and still has them around as boat anchors.
This has nothing to do with the cronies that Bouchard has chosen for himself. They haven't done anything in their functions as Rocket staff to discredit themselves.