Confirmed with Link: CBJ hire Don Waddell as President of Hockey Operations and General Manager. JD to serve as Senior Advisor
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I guess this is a too complicated and foreign concept for most fans, but it's possible to think simultaneously that:
- nepotism is wrong
- nepotism seems to exist within the org
- Nash seems to be a beneficiary of it and has achieved his current role at least partially for wrong reasons
- Nash might be good at what he does and will be given a chance to show it
- nepotism is wrong
- nepotism seems to exist within the org
- Nash seems to be a beneficiary of it and has achieved his current role at least partially for wrong reasons
- Nash might be good at what he does and will be given a chance to show it
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The definition of nepotism inherently implies lack of fitness for the job. That's why it is considered bad. Trying to say both is effectively trying to say "he's not fit for the job, but he might be fit for the job". It's self-contradictory.
According to which definition?
Nepotism - Wikipedia
It seems to me that nepotism for you means: "The act of granting an advantage, privilege, or position to relatives or friends in an occupation or field" while knowing they're not fit for the job.
How I understand it: "The act of granting an advantage, privilege, or position to relatives or friends in an occupation or field" with or without knowing how fit they are for the job.
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I'm not very confident in Nash as an exec but I'm not sure this is nepotism, even by your definition which allows that he might be good at his job.
He's spent more time working his way up from the bottom than the former player GMs that I'm familiar with. Guys like Sakic and Yzerman went straight to the top group of execs - meanwhile we had Nash getting coffees and helping B prospects for a couple years and he's still not at the top. I couldn't tell you how Briere, Conroy, or Guerin started in FOs. I know Staios is literally the owners friend.
Should we just have a rule against hiring former star players? That would have kept the Avs from hiring Sakic.
