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Interview with Penguins’ Dir. of Player Personnel, Dan MacKinnon
by Tony on 09/02/10 at 09:23 PM ET
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From Pondrocketgear.com’s Ben Weber:
PR - I am sure that no two days in the office are alike, but can you describe a “typical” workday for the Director of Player Personnel of the Pittsburgh Penguins?
DM - The pace of my day is all dictated by what type of travel I am doing. For instance, I am writing this e-mail to you from an airport lounge in Vienna on my way to a U-18 international tournament in Slovakia. Travel is really the single biggest component of the job other than the actual in-game scouting. Most fulltime scouts are at least part professional traveler.
PR - How has the salary cap changed the way you do your job compared to the days before the cap?DM - The Cap simply puts more pressure on all areas of hockey operations, scouting being no exception. It is harder to hide mistakes than it was before (i.e. bad contracts, bad trades, poor drafting etc…). In the pre-Cap era, affluent teams could simply re-load through free agency and run up their payrolls. You can’t do that anymore.
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