Simmons: Arizona Coyotes have reached out to AA

[HERPDERP]

No, I did not mispell the Dbacks you fools

 

http://www.torontosun.com/2015/11/21/are-the-arizona-coyotes-chasing-alex-anthopoulos

Edited November 22, 2015 by NorthOf49

[burlingtonbandit]

I can't see any chance AA would want a job outside of baseball. Especially for a team like Arizona. Why the hell would you even want to hire AA if you were the Coyotes? He has no experience with the NHL.

[Frag]

I can't see any chance AA would want a job outside of baseball. Especially for a team like Arizona. Why the hell would you even want to hire AA if you were the Coyotes? He has no experience with the NHL.

 

Author: Steve Simmons

[Grant77]

Don't you mean the D-Backs?

[BigRed]

I saw this earlier and laughed. Not because of the idea of an MLB executive going to the NHL, but because it's the Coyotes.

 

AA's a smart dude. He's a talent evaluator. He's also Canadian, and probably has watched a ton of hockey. I'm sure he'd figure it out quickly and be good at it.

 

But it's the Coyotes. Why anyone would want to work for that team is beyond me. I'd rather be unemployed.

[GD]

Hahahahahahaha holy f***. He has enough issues on a large budget. He'll trade a bunch of decent young prospects for Eric Staal, Alex Semin and someone else and then wonder why it didn't work, and it'll be hilarious.

 

I laughed at:

 

Anthopoulos does, however, know Arizona assistant GM John Chayka, through his analytics work outside of hockey.

[nonamejays]

The Coyotes could move to Quebec. Might be a reason. Other than that, who knows.

[FrozenRopes]

Author: Steve Simmons

 

Thos should be followed by /thread

[Rajais Mitten]

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[rydermike]

Also in the article

SCENE AND HEARD

 

Here’s a surprise: There’s some garage sale shopping going on in baseball. Teams are actually calling the Jays, inquiring about the availability of lost starter Drew Hutchison ... Some Hutchison stats from last season: With a 1-0 count, batters hit .537 against him. With an 0-1 count, they hit only .230. If he started a count 0-2, the number dropped to .180. When the Jays were ahead on the scoreboard, opposing batters hit .274 against Hutchison. When the Jays were behind, that average rose to .403 ... All that said, the Jays still believe in Hutchison because he strikes batters out, has reasonable control, a decent changeup and a pretty good slider. Then what is it about him? Is he the baseball equivalent of Jonathan Bernier? All the tools but none of the focus to deliver ... Both of the Blue Jays’ MVP award winners arrived in Toronto via clever moves out of the box moves by GMs. Anthopoulos wouldn’t give up on his pursuit of Josh Donaldson. And George Bell, MVP in 1987, came to the Jays when Pat Gillick claimed him from Philadelphia in the Rule 5 waiver draft in 1980. Bell didn’t become a starter with the Jays until 1984.

[burlingtonbandit]

Steve Simmons might be the worst journalist in all Canadian Media.

[BTS]

Steve Simmons might be the worst journalist

 

ftfy

[Grant77]

Steve Simmons might be the worst journalist in all Canadian Media.

 

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/martinez-to-manage-blue-jays/article770614/

 

Not if you remember Marty York.

[nmrch]

I can't see any chance AA would want a job outside of baseball. Especially for a team like Arizona. Why the hell would you even want to hire AA if you were the Coyotes? He has no experience with the NHL.

 

To be fair executive leadership isn't about "knowing" things, its about judgement. That's why many CEO's jump from one company to the other from completely different sectors. AA isn't a super smart executive but a guy like Friedman would probably be successful in almost any sport.

[burlingtonbandit]

To be fair executive leadership isn't about "knowing" things, its about judgement. That's why many CEO's jump from one company to the other from completely different sectors. AA isn't a super smart executive but a guy like Friedman would probably be successful in almost any sport.

 

Yeah I would agree with that. Still don't see how AA would want to work in anywhere but baseball.

[dineke]

Why would anyone want to work in hockey? Zzz