The board knows crap about basketball and when they see attendance drop for the Raptors they knew they had to hire a basketball guy and got a guy who is 2 time exec of the year and probably one of the smartest guys in that sport.
Now with hockey, most on the board think they know the game, the players, the gms etc etc etc enough to think they are experts. They need someone to come in, sit them all down, light their cigars and slap them with the cold hard truth. They don't know Jack about hockey!! Give them all accounts to yahoo sports and let them run a team that way and let the experts run the real team.
Its too bad about JFJ, his true value will be never known. Who knows how well or even how much worse it could have been, had he full autonomy like his counterpart for the Raptors, Colangelo.
JFJs true value was/is player drafting and development, just take a look at some of the stats of the players drafted in late rounds under his watch. Not too shabby. Oh well, moving on!
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