Svechhammer
THIS is hockey?
- Jun 8, 2017
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The most frugal budget that annually spends to the cap and gives the head coach whatever salary he wants.Athletic survey on League's top front offices (top 3: Dallas, Tampa, Florida).
Canes came in 8th (Total points: 21 (1 first-place vote, appeared on 6 ballots).
Leafs were 23rd and the following 9 finished "last": Buffalo Sabres, Calgary Flames, Chicago Blackhawks, Columbus Blue Jackets, Los Angeles Kings, New York Islanders, Ottawa Senators, San Jose Sharks, Seattle Kraken.
"They operate on the most frugal budget and their staff does a helluva job,” one senior adviser said. “I’ll be interested to see how Eric Tulsky does because Donnie Waddell’s the one person that I know that could handle Tom (Dundon). A guy like Mark Craig runs the pro side, and the pro side’s basically a part-time gig for most of those guys. It also tells you just how good a coach Rod Brind’Amour is. His players play at their optimal level.”
ok, sure