I am aware of all this. MacT did it while being a guest panelist on TSN big deal. I'm not discounting the benefits of MBA programs or Law degrees. They should just not be used in a way to say oh MacT should have been a great GM he has a Queens EMBA
I see you have an old join date, but I'm not sure how often you read this board if you think there were many people saying the bolded.
Its kind of strange to be this worried about a claim that so few people are making, don't you think?
Big *** deal he had no experience, having an MBA does not make you a good hockey GM.
This part of your argument I really have trouble following. For any job employers probably look for a mix of experience and education. It would be silly to ignore either component.
MacT did a poor job. It does not follow however that he is therefore poorly educated or unqualified. Plenty of successful, well-educated, eminently qualified people fail in business everyday. And others, with lesser credentials, may succeed beyond any prediction.
Posters on this site (contrary to what you seem to think) usually mock MacT's MBA, or belittle the fact that its an "e" degree. I think Dorian already did a good job of explaining why those folks are mistaken. But what is really puzzling is those same posters will do as you just did above and discount MacT's real NHL experience as well.
One cannot just keep recycling the same management "talent" around the league. At some point new people have to break into management in this league. Are all of those people expected to have perfect resumes? Like do they need degrees from the right schools
and need to have worked their way up through an NHL organization? In a perfect world maybe. But we have seen that the NHL in general tends to place more significance on hiring people who have experience within the league in some capacity than they do on degrees of any kind. Look at Shanahan for an example of a guy who has held a lot of important positions with some pretty thin qualifications.
Two months after retiring from the NHL he became the NHL's Vice President of Hockey and Business Development. Sounds like the kind of job and advanced degree might be a prerequisite for, no? Not in the NHL. After accomplishing not much of anything for the NHL he skips straight to president and alternate governor of the Leafs.
My point is that the NHL values success in the game
at least as much as they value degrees. By the metrics used in the NHL, MacT was very qualified for the position of GM. He had a long and illustrious playing career during which he was known to be a tenacious and determined opponent. He had coaching experience at multiple levels. He presumably has many connections within the game. He also had a business education.
Its too bad he failed. And I'm not upset that he was replaced. But it does bother me when people make out like its some kind of miracle he was ever employed in the first place. The man was qualified. Just because people don't like the result its no reason to dismiss everything he had accomplished in his life that led to him getting the chance to be an NHL GM. And yes, that includes his MBA.
I don't know, I believe that is very, very deceiving as Dubnyk played a huge part in bailing them out game after game.
I'll just go ahead and call bs here. I watch all the games. I can recall
maybe a half dozen instances where I said to myself after a game, "damn, thank God we had Dubnyk in net tonight". The way Dubnyk is playing right now can't be denied. The transformation from "almost out of the league" to "Vezina candidate" in less than a calender year may be the most amazing thing I have ever seen in pro hockey.
That said we are not rewriting the Dubnyk legend in Edmonton. He was a freaking disaster here. Terrible fundamentals, mentally weak, entitled and complacent.
