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Most Valuable Owner
by Paul on 01/17/08 at 03:53 PM ET
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from Jim Kelley at Sportsnet,
...but if I had a vote for most valuable owner, it would go to Mike Illitch of the Detroit Red Wings.
Year after year the product Illitch puts on the ice as every bit as good as the pizza he puts in the boxes of his first-love business: Little Caesars. His baseball team, the Detroit Tigers, are every bit as good (and well run) as his efforts to reignite development in downtown Detroit. He has his critics, but by and large, Illitch is an owner who understands that you can never go wrong by hiring good people and then giving them what they need to do great work.
His hockey operations are a case in point.
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Great article. I don’t particularly like the Wings as a team on the ice - not enough charismatic Canadians since Yzerman retired - but as an organization they are a model. Unfortunately, it is a long, complicated business to put together something like the Wings, with the investment in scouting, development, etc. The Leafs will never do it. They are still living in the pre-1967 expansion era when they could hoover up the best young English Canadian talent. No coincidence that they haven’t won a Stanley Cup since then. Like the city of Toronto itself, they have a sickening sense of entitlement.
Posted by Xtoval from Austin on 01/18/08 at 12:59 AM ET
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Mr. Kelley hit the nail on the head.
Posted by w2j2 on 01/17/08 at 06:05 PM ET