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Hounsy
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| Stinky wrote: |
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And, typically, just when the Leafs have lost so much management just has to shake things up, we start on a win streak.  |
FOUR MORE YEARS! |
Blow hard.
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Alabama Man
Now with 30% more rage!
Joined: 29 Oct 2007
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GLENN HEALY FOR GM!
Statistics show; don't hire a proven winner! 
Those GMs have all won Cup titles with one team, but are unlikely to repeat the feat with another, says Glenn Rowe, a professor at the University of Western Ontario's Richard Ivey School of Business.
Rowe studied 138 GM changes and 371 coaching changes in the NHL between 1942 and 2002, to measure the effect of leadership changes on organizations. Some of his findings are published, others are interesting tidbits he picked up along the way. In some ways, what he discovered flies in the face of conventional wisdom.
"One of the reasons you might want to hire Cliff Fletcher is that he won a Stanley Cup with Calgary. So he knows how to build a Stanley Cup team," Rowe says. "But let me ask you, how many GMs do you suppose there have been in the NHL who have won Stanley Cups with more than one team?"
For the answer, you have to go back a long way, to Tommy Gorman, who won as GM-coach with Chicago in 1934, GM-coach of the Montreal Maroons in '35 and as GM of the Canadiens in '44.
Going out to hire a coach who has won a Stanley Cup with another team is another uphill battle statistically. Only three men have coached different teams to Stanley Cup titles: Gorman, Scotty Bowman (Pittsburgh, Montreal and Detroit) and Dick Irvin (Montreal and Toronto).
"That's three coaches, that's less than one per cent of all who have coached," says Rowe. "Look at all the people that Toronto is considering (for the GM's job). Every one of them, Burke, Holland, Bowman, Rutherford (have won Cups). ... They're being seduced by the glitter of someone having won the Stanley Cup."
Leafs president Richard Peddie seemed amused by Rowe's findings, but isn't about to change his approach.
"We're looking for a proven winner and the best example is a Stanley Cup," says Peddie. "If we end up hiring an individual who's already won a Stanley Cup, I guess we'll break the string."
FULL ARTICLE: http://www.thestar.com/Sports/article/301949
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