The NHL’s recycled frontu2011office culture creates a competitive edge for the few executives who understand how to weaponize timing and leverage against the unexceptional.
I want to preface this article by saying something upfront: it’s going to make some people in hockey angry, and I genuinely could not care less. It’s the truth — and for some reason, no one in NHL media, from podcasters to national analysts, ever seems willing to say it out loud.
The NHL has the most middling collection of general managers in all major North American sports, and it’s not even close.