Ken Holland rumored to join Utah front office

[BraveCanadian]

Needs to get his son a new job, I guess.

 

[Euro Twins]

He was the director of scouting. Holland didn’t ascend in Detroit because he had the wrong ideas. He helped turn around the talent, then after Devellano and Bowman ill-fated thoughts on trading Yzerman he gained more power before fully gaining control outside of the three gm setup. He hired Hakan Andersson and Jim Nill. His best talent was honestly surrounding himself with good people.

Hey people can continue this strange narrative. The guy is in the HHOF for a reason. Like I said people can say the game has passed him by, but he very clearly is one of the smarter hockey minds of my lifetime. So to get advice and to have as a sounding board isn’t a bad thing. This rumor doesn’t have him as an ultimate decision maker. It has him in the kind of role Devellano assumed in Detroit for a ton of years.

I absolutely agree his best talent was surrounding himself with good people and scouting. I'm not denying his talents. His worst traits are trades and cap management though. And in a cap era that can be devastating to a team

 

[Czechboy]

I was hoping he'd go to Vancouver or Calgary personally.

 

[PaulD]

Yeah I cant imagine being as old as Holland/Lou/Poile and having made the money that they did in their careers and actually wanting a job lol

These guys are very wealthy. I can not understand why you would want to be part of NHL management team in late 60s to 80s.

Only some one who never had money would this baffling.

 

[hamzarocks]

Only some one who never had money would this baffling.

Maybe so, human greed is associated with wealth

These guys arent far from their graves and still wanting to work in managerial roles (Lou and Poile especially).

Rich people just operate in bizarre manner