NHL Ownership Grades (The Athletic)

[Osprey]

I'm surprised that the Kings owner got only a C+. He lets the organization spend to the cap every year despite the team not winning a playoff round in 11 years, lets his employees repeatedly screw up without firing them and hasn't visited the team facilities in years. Sounds like a dream boss to me.

 

[archangel2]

Oilers F after this off season

 

[Some Other Flame]

Flames owner Murray Edwards being near the bottom is completely accurate. Probably the single biggest obstacle towards any semblance of sustainable organizational success

 

[eojsmada]

Why?

Do you even know who “they” are?

The ones who let the Kyle Beech situation happen

 

[Crow]

The ones who let the Kyle Beech situation happen

He’s dead. Also very unclear if he ever had an idea.

 

[Bouboumaster]

B+ for Molson is fair
I'd even go at A IMO

Geoff Molson wanted to do too much in the Bergevin Era, but now that he's more hands off, he's much better

I truly believes he loves the team and I think he understand the importance of it

Plus, he has pretty much unlimited fund

 

[HabzSauce]

Absolute joke of a list. Utah, Carolina, and Ottawa B+? And MTL should be a C- at the highest until we see how this rebuild shakes out. Molson should not be off the hook for decades of mediocrity that easily. They completely wasted a franchise goaltender’s career under his ownership, among plenty of other things.

I like Molson. He stays out of the picture for most part. Let's the hockey guys do their thing.

 

[Beige Van]

Good for the Panthers. They aren't too many years removed from things such as this

 

[Shonky]

Canucks 2nd last seems generous

 

[Leafs87]

Detroit should be higher. The Ilitchs have always been very well regarded

 

[Hockeyfan2390]

Detroit should be higher. The Ilitchs have always been very well regarded

Chris is not his father - the passion is not there at all.

Not to mention the unbelievable district Detroit failure.

 

[norrisnick]

Detroit should be higher. The Ilitchs have always been very well regarded

Mike and Marian, sure. Until the tail end of Mike's life. His unwillingness to accept that a rebuild is needed has led to where the Wings are currently trying to climb out of. That and various grudges with former players. Yes, he owned the team that had a great 25 year run. But there have always been suspect things going on. Chris is just kind of there.

 

[Hockeyfan2390]

Mike and Marian, sure. Until the tail end of Mike's life. His unwillingness to accept that a rebuild is needed has led to where the Wings are currently trying to climb out of. That and various grudges with former players. Yes, he owned the team that had a great 25 year run. But there have always been suspect things going on. Chris is just kind of there.

The Ilitch family needs to get over the Fedorov thing.

If Roy can return to the Habs and have his number retired after how he left, there’s no reason why Fedorov can’t in Detroit.

 

[hirawl]

Somehow I find it a bit odd that the business side of business is completely forgotten as criteria when rating business ownership.

 

[Breakers]

Aquilini may spend to the cap

But he is on record saying he won’t pay for a good coach, and it backfired as he was paying 3 seperate coaches at once recently

He hired a golf chiropractor as his head of medicine that backfired immensely with medical advice he was giving out

He hired a high end sleep doctor from Manchester United then refused to pay him

He is obsessed with those 2 playoff games and revenue from it, the problem is they have missed the playoffs 7 of the past 9 years and 1 of those 2 years was from a technicality of Covid, as he never sells at the deadline by his demand

Aquilini hates draft picks, like despises them at a molecular level.