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It always should have been him or O'Reilly. Nothing written in NHL law says the most talented player on the team must be the captain. In fact, two Sabres finals teams suggest the opposite.

I have neither, although I could probably fashion a torch. If that's true, we need a GM move.

What time do they land, and is anyone else up for a trip to the airport?

I 100% agree with this and also 100% don't know another way to acquire an NHL team over which I would be president because I'd, you know, own it.

When I lived there, DC couldn't care or even know who the Caps coach was. Seems different these days.

Well, all right then. Let's see if Adams can prove his mettle and get more than a MoJo-worth player for him.

As usual, Brawndo has it:

Yes you have.

I'm ok with this lineup.

We did not. Just pointing out (as I did in my first post in this thread) that there are a few owners who played their sports. Not many, but a few.

This is the more worthwhile question, IMO. Of course, they could have conducted no interviews, hired Adams as "president" (again, whatever that means) and then Adams could have conducted interviews and hired a GM, leading to a similar question about whether it was a sound business decision to hire Adams.

Jerry Jones is not the example you want to use here. He won a national championship as a player.

Nah, it's Delia. Imagine if Kim had done this:

I didn't quite say that...Delia Smith, a TV chef, owns my favorite soccer team and I should have included her in the mix.

You posted an extremely provocative question. You had to know you were going to be unhappy with some of the responses. Sorry that two of them came from me. But the fact is, there is no qualification to be a team president. If you're fortunate enough to own a team, you do what you want with it. Whether she's meddling--that's something we don't know. There are theories out there, and you know my position on them, and I won't repeat it here. Whether she's "qualified" to be a team president? That's easily answered. She owns it; she's qualified to be president of it, whatever "president" means.

I'm just mentioning that we had these discussions when you weren't active on the board. If my answers bother you, I'm sure there's a way for you to mute me.

What do you think the job of team president is? All a team president is, if not the owner, is someone else to fire.

All of them are the highest authority. Whether they call themselves president or emperor or owner or janitor doesn't matter. Nevertheless, I think the answer to the question is "yes" but I'm not certain of it and I'm not going to spend time on it. We went through THIS a couple of years ago, as well, in a thread which suggested multiple layers of upper management would somehow help.

Her ownership of the team. Just like the others I mentioned. So nothing.

This is hilarious. The guy is as much poster a child for a used Pontiac as Ted Nolan is for a classic Mustang.

Nothing. The answer is nothing. Just like Tom Golisano, John Rigas, and Seymour Knox. Just like John Henry, George Steinbrenner, Ralph Wilson, Shahid Khan, Paul Allen, (EDIT to add Delia Smith), whomever. The Jerry Joneses and Wayne Gretzkys are very rare among pro sports owners. We went through this a couple of years ago, btw.

This comparison has been made on league-wide social media for at least a week (reddit) now, and it is worth thinking about.

An immediate lift. Maybe not so much as a St Louis Blues Mike Yeo lift, and maybe there isn't enough time. But an immediate lift.

Same.

I'd rather have you as the head of scouting.