so how many NHL teams have a top level exec hire their son? I know Stan Bowman hired his dad but it's a little different when you hire perhaps the greatest NHL coach of all time vs a Div III head coach.
I can't say for sure...but I don't think an NHL executive hiring his son, is any different than an NHL executive hiring a recently retired player to head his development team.
Do you really believe the Habs would have hired him if his dad didn't work for the team?
I think most hirings are at first based from some type of relationship...so probably not.
But that still doesn't mean that this situation is exclusive to the Habs, it's simply not.
When Geoff Molson was looking for a GM, what did he do? He commissioned the search to someone he and his family knew very well - that's nepotism.
When Brendan Shannahan was looking for a GM, what did he do? He hired Lou Lamoriello, someone who used to be HIS GM that's nepotism.
I think if you examined every NHL, MLB, NFL, NBA, MSL, etc you'd find examples of nepotism.