I said, “error evaluating players.” That means, overvaluing your own players, undervaluing other teams players, making poor decisions on player value at the draft table Etc.
Valuing players is essentially half of the hockey operations job when it comes down to it. The other half being development.
You need to be objectively able to evaluate. It really does come down to that. It is one of the reasons why poorer franchises stay poor and stronger franchises remain strong. They have quality evaluators, developers and a manager that can disseminate the information and align it into a team.
So, hypothetically speaking, let’s say a GM is having a conversation and he is willing to move, for example, Walton for Beck on a Wednesday. Then over the weekend, Walton scores 7 points and the following week he says, “Well, Walton had a very good weekend so that changes things.” I’m not saying that happened, jsut as an example. If the player has a very good weekend, it should not change the parameters of the discussion UNLESS you didn’t evaluate the player properly to begin with.
