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Jorah Marshmont

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I don't know about firing the Europeon head scout, we have some pretty good Euros in the pipeline with Arnesson, Blidh, Cehlarik right?
 

GloryDaze4877

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I don't know about firing the Europeon head scout, we have some pretty good Euros in the pipeline with Arnesson, Blidh, Cehlarik right?

Holtari is based in Finland and most of the Euro success of late seems to be from Sweden (Swedes and other Euros playing there) where they have PJ and Svenake Svensson (who has been in the B's organization for 20+ years).

The fired GM's bro? Does anything really need to be said?
 

Jorah Marshmont

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Holtari is based in Finland and most of the Euro success of late seems to be from Sweden (Swedes and other Euros playing there) where they have PJ and Svenake Svensson (who has been in the B's organization for 20+ years).

The fired GM's bro? Does anything really need to be said?

That makes sense, we haven't had anything from Finland in years.
 

GloryDaze4877

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That makes sense, we haven't had anything from Finland in years.

I'm sure he scouted areas other than Finland, but I have to think that this guy was a Chia hire and maybe had OTT connections? Not sure about Leblanc?

Edit: I believe that Leblanc was a part-time scout for Columbus at one point, so he was probably a Wayne Smith (who was let go last year) guy??
 
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Tod Button is Calgary's head scout, was hired by his brother Craig when he was GM but was fired over 10 years ago. Also plenty of Sutters still kicking around the Saddledome. Sometimes there's more than one good hockey mind per household
 

TheReal13Linseman

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hardly a first, have a peek in many organizations and you`ll see many cases of nepotism going on

Even if other teams do it, it's a bad practice to get into. It just looks bad. Goal should be to create as close to a meritocracy as possible in all areas of the organization.

Many entities officially sanction nepotism and patronage for the same reasons.
 

BruinDust

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Tod Button is Calgary's head scout, was hired by his brother Craig when he was GM but was fired over 10 years ago. Also plenty of Sutters still kicking around the Saddledome. Sometimes there's more than one good hockey mind per household

In Tod Button's case there was only one good hockey mind (not including their old man Jack). Craig Button is a moron.
 

ODAAT

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Even if other teams do it, it's a bad practice to get into. It just looks bad. Goal should be to create as close to a meritocracy as possible in all areas of the organization.

Many entities officially sanction nepotism and patronage for the same reasons.

I never said I liked nor agreed with it, I know absolutely nothing about Chia`s brother but this stuff happens all over the league was really all I was trying to get at
 

bob27

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Some good interesting picks from Sweden in the last few years, most notably Pastrnak. Hope they didn't meddle with the guys responsible for that area too much.
 

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