The Last Red
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Based on what? Do you work in the CBJ front office?There seems to be a total lack of urgency in getting this done.
Not really. If the person they is working for a team that is currently in the playoffs, that team is well within their right to say we aren't letting you interview them until their season is over. Lets say Darche is their top guy, his season ended last night. Now that teams seasons are ending, I expect some interviews to take place.There seems to be a total lack of urgency in getting this done.
you cannot entirely separate the two, though, because the on-ice results drive a ton of revenue.No question, the CEO in the business world is judged on profitability and if a publicly held company, they are judged first and foremost on the performance of the company's stock.
I wonder if Jarmo wanted cheaper coaches because they demand less power which allowed the GM to be in total control of all personnel moves.you cannot entirely separate the two, though, because the on-ice results drive a ton of revenue.
it's a gate-driven league. good teams have more expensive tickets, better ratings, more sponsorship opportunities, etc. – and that's without getting into the millions of dollars per game that they'd make in the playoffs.
every year they miss the playoffs, they miss out on tens of millions of dollars in potential profit. mike priest has, at the very least, signed off on every coaching/GM hire that has failed to yield those results in the last 25 years.
it's been written about ad nauseam, but the organization has refused to pay top dollar for coaches and it has burned them. they got lucky once (torts) with a reclamation project there, then got burned when they tried to replicate that (babcock). otherwise it's a lot of cheap first-timers who are in over their heads (lars, pv).
it's not like JD and jarmo were the guys pinching pennies with those hires. they were working within budgets set by mike priest and ownership.
i 100% get that it was time for jarmo to go but this is revisionist history that doesn't even fit the MO that jarmo showed when he was here. jarmo was always ardent that the coach sets the lineup, and that the GM's job is to give the coach pieces that work.I wonder if Jarmo wanted cheaper coaches because they demand less power which allowed the GM to be in total control of all personnel moves.
Ding ding! We don't need to make up supervillain conspiracy theories about Jarmo. Sometimes incompetence and cheapness is just that. Simple organizational rot.i 100% get that it was time for jarmo to go but this is revisionist history that doesn't even fit the MO that jarmo showed when he was here. jarmo was always ardent that the coach sets the lineup, and that the GM's job is to give the coach pieces that work.
not only that, but jarmo wasn't even the top ranking hockey ops executive (that was JD). these guys also don't just make up their own budgets, those get set by ownership, and they have to get approval if they go over. not exactly an "absolute power" guy or position. they only hire 'damaged goods' coaches (torts/babcock) or first-timers who aren't hot commodities on the HC market (larsen, pv) because ownership doesn't want to shell out the money to win a bidding war for a coach who has legitimate interest around the league.
My comment was specifically about how CEOs are evaluated in the business world. As a business, the Rangers and the Leafs are the most successful ie. profitable in the NHL.Toronto, Montreal, and the Rangers are the most valuable franchises and I assume they are far far more profitable than any other team. Toronto fans complain that the salary cap hurts them, but really it protects their team’s profitability. Should these teams be considered the most successful franchises in the NHL?
those franchises also outright tanked in order to build teams that would have sustainable success and perennial playoff appearances, have been willing to fire coaches with a ton of money remaining, and have spent top dollar on front office personnel + coaches.My comment was specifically about how CEOs are evaluated in the business world. As a business, the Rangers and the Leafs are the most successful ie. profitable in the NHL.
There's enough crap that we know about that warranted his dismissal a long time ago. Even if something like this happened, it's superfluous now.I wonder if Jarmo wanted cheaper coaches because they demand less power which allowed the GM to be in total control of all personnel moves.