NoMoreChoking
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Remember, he is president, not GM. If he was GM I would be worried. Let's wait to see who he hires as GM
I don't think this is necessarily a terrible move. Sure there were better candidates available for the job but atleast there is someone now that knows something about hockey aswell.
Willing to give this a chance without shooting it down the second it happens.
Remember, he is president, not GM. If he was GM I would be worried. Let's wait to see who he hires as GM
People evolve, people change, people learn from their mistakes. I am not going to say whether hiring Gretzky as President is a good or bad thing necessarily.
Pros: marketability, juice with league, possible stature for free agents/other executives or coaches, fate
Cons: track record, past mistakes, cronyism, star-player to executive dynamic, ego
I said the other day. We will know if he has learned from his mistakes by whom he hires as GM. Messier or other crony=uh oh. Non-crony=progress.
It's the logic behind this that makes it so completely unacceptable. Hiring a new president to set an organizational tone and philosophy is a very good idea. Ted didn't arrive at it because it's a good idea. Instead, he arrived at one specific president for completely other, marketing-oriented reasons. A grown adult man who has run entire companies thinks the answer to the franchise's problems is a PR stunt (that the public doesn't even support).
At this point I'm just hoping it's not Gretzky - - > Milbury - - > Gretzky.
Poll added. Name your "other" candidate if you chose that option.
At this point I'm just hoping it's not Gretzky - - > Milbury - - > Gretzky.
Given his reasons for leaving Hockey Canada, I don't think he was a realistic option. But agreed that he would have been the ideal candidate.Bob Nicholson
@Stormin1Norman: Breaking News Wayne Gretzky to be named president of the Washington #Caps #NHL
He called Lavy to NSH yesterday so...ugh.
More likely, although that's always going to be an ownership call anyway. Patrick was the one behind tacking more years on Ovechkin's extension and recently said if they had two of him people wouldn't be getting fired. Gretzky couldn't help but provide a more realistic and thoughtful perspective if need be when it comes to a star player (assuming ownership wants to hear it and there isn't a subtly coerced sense of taboo there). In that regard maybe it's not a terrible hire...but that's mainly because ownership has proven to be so lacking in perspective/insight.Well let's get ahead of this and cut directly to a question many will be sure to ask: How likely is it that 99 will ever trade Ovechkin?
You know this is going to come up if it hasn't already. 99 was the biggest star in the league and the face of his team, and he was traded. Does that make him more likely to pull the trigger? Or does his experience mean the opposite, and he's less likely to put a team and a player through all of that?
Gambling with Gretzky
The question is, which one, or both.
I just hope Ted and Dicks Big Adventure included actually grilling Wayne on the unpleasantness of Phoenix, and were not star struck, their minds already made up.
I expect Ted and Dick to do it all wrong. I'm just hoping they luck in to something.
I am OK with it as long as he doesn't have an opinion about which wing Ovechkin should play.