Draft Day
eBook - ePub

Draft Day

How Hockey Teams Pick Winners or Get Left Behind

  1. 304 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Draft Day

How Hockey Teams Pick Winners or Get Left Behind

About this book

Doug MacLean, former NHL coach, general manager, team president, and one of the game's biggest personalities, reveals how teams build for greatness—or fail to—on hockey's most anticipated day. A Moneyball for hockey. The NHL draft is a critical time for teams, when the foundation for future championships is laid—or when championship dreams die. Only time will tell if a draft is successful, but a failed draft can severely set teams back for seasons, much to the dread of ownership, management, and most importantly, the fans.For even the most die-hard hockey fan, the preparation for draft day is a black box. Former president, general manager, and coach Doug MacLean takes readers behind the scenes, from the 2022 draft in Montreal to revealing draft stories from the past, to show how players are discovered and evaluated to create successful teams.Just as Moneyball illustrated the value of analytics in building teams in baseball and beyond, Draft Day shows the careful considerations that go into assessing talent for success. What is that balance in today's game between metrics and instinct, between analytics and traditional scouting? MacLean draws from his own career as well as anecdotes from across the league to illustrate the hard-won lessons and principles that lead to building successful teams. Hockey is big business, and this book is an invaluable resource for any leader seeking an edge for building resilient organizations.Entertaining and informative, with never-before-told details from some of the biggest moments in NHL history, Draft Day is for every hockey fan who wonders how their team develops that hard-to-define winning chemistry—or fails to, year after year.

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Information

Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Year
2023
eBook ISBN
9781982149956
Edition
0
Subtopic
Unterhaltungsindustrie

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Preface
  5. Introduction: The 2022 Draft
  6. Chapter 1: The Hockey Life
  7. Chapter 2: The History of the Draft
  8. Chapter 3: The Value of Draft Picks, Part One
  9. Chapter 4: Building a Winner
  10. Chapter 5: The Value of Draft Picks, Part Two
  11. Chapter 6: The Lindros Rule
  12. Chapter 7: Scouts and the Draft List
  13. Chapter 8: Rick Nash, First Overall
  14. Chapter 9: The War Room
  15. Chapter 10: Analytics
  16. Chapter 11: The Pittsburgh Model
  17. Chapter 12: Nikolai the (Not So) Great
  18. Chapter 13: Last Words
  19. Acknowledgments
  20. About the Authors
  21. Index
  22. Copyright