Art Vandelay Posted July 13, 2016 Share Posted July 13, 2016 Quote Before a trade or signing gets announced, a fan base can feel one of two things: giddy anticipation or a nervous panic. The difference is confidence. When a front office makes a few good moves in a row, the fan base is confident that’ll continue. A few bad moves in a row and it’s more like “what did they do this time.” Front office confidence is earned through a good process and good results. So it stands to reason that the best front offices are the ones that fans are the most confident in while the worst ones hold the least confidence. The fans aren’t always right, but with the amount of moves that get made every year it’s hard not to notice some trends among teams, good or bad. After the blockbuster trades that happened just before free agency, and the mega deals that were signed right after, I was curious to see what the consensus opinion was for each team’s front office. I created a survey asking people to rank each team’s front office in six different categories based on how confident they would be if that front office was running their team instead. The categories in question are roster building, cap management, drafting and development, trading, free agency, and vision. The overall ranking was then weighted by how important respondents deemed each skill to be relative to the others. Those surveyed viewed drafting and development as most important, followed by roster building and vision, then cap management, then trading, with free agency seen as the least important. They were also asked if they were more, less or similarly confident with this team based on their moves over the last year or so. Just over 200 people responded to the survey. Here’s how much confidence they have with every team on a scale from 1-to-10. http://www.thehockeynews.com/blog/how-much-confidence-does-each-nhl-fan-base-have-in-their-front-office-a-ranking-of-all-30-teams/ List is very large, so I here is a quick summary: 1: Tampa Bay 11: St. Louis 21: Detroit 2: Florida 12: Chicago 22: Minnesota 3: Nashville 13: Toronto 23: Ottawa 4: Pittsburgh 14: Carolina 24: Colorado 5: Washington 15: Calgary 25: Columbus 6: Dallas 16: Philadelphia 26: New York Rangers 7: Arizona 17: New Jersey 27: Edmonton 8: San Jose 18: New York Islanders 28: Boston 9: Buffalo 19: Anaheim 29: Montreal 10: Winnipeg 20: L.A. 30: Vancouver I think this article was solely made to anger pretty much any hockey fan. I bolded teams I thought were way off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xbox Posted July 13, 2016 Share Posted July 13, 2016 How tf is Carolina 14th? They should be 29th. If Ownership is "front office" Ottawa has to be 30th. Hearing "We're a top 5 team that should of made the playoffs" and "We don't need to spend anymore than 64M" would piss me off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeNiro Posted July 13, 2016 Share Posted July 13, 2016 I'm okay with 30th. It's the same number we'll be picking in the draft when the doubters will be choking on their own hate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Jay 22 Posted July 13, 2016 Share Posted July 13, 2016 This can't be right. Otherwise Detroit have the most spoiled fans in the world. Ditto with Chicago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-SN- Posted July 13, 2016 Share Posted July 13, 2016 Quote Just over 200 people responded Welcome to a completely useless survey. This stuff is just off-season click-bait. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GettinGuddyWithIt Posted July 13, 2016 Share Posted July 13, 2016 2 minutes ago, Xbox said: How tf is Carolina 14th? They should be 29th. If Ownership is "front office" Ottawa has to be 30th. Hearing "We're a top 5 team that should of made the playoffs" and "We don't need to spend anymore than 64M" would piss me off. Don't worry of course Canucks are going to be last and most hated on...while other teams like Ottawa (no free agent signings after a mediocre season) or Florida (look at the moves the Panthers have been making after this record breaking season..I wouldnt trust the front office for s%#*) are favoured more. Whatever I trust Linden and Benning and that my 2 cents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Building Posted July 13, 2016 Share Posted July 13, 2016 That's as informative as any CNN poll. Complete trash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RRypien37 Posted July 13, 2016 Share Posted July 13, 2016 13 minutes ago, DeNiro said: I'm okay with 30th. It's the same number we'll be picking in the draft when the doubters will be choking on their own hate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
internationalCanuck Posted July 13, 2016 Share Posted July 13, 2016 12 minutes ago, StealthNuck said: Welcome to a completely useless survey. This stuff is just off-season click-bait. this. what a joke. 200 people surveyed? ya, better luck next time THN. Add me in the survey and we would have jumped a few spots im sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
internationalCanuck Posted July 13, 2016 Share Posted July 13, 2016 20 minutes ago, Blue Jay 22 said: This can't be right. Otherwise Detroit have the most spoiled fans in the world. Ditto with Chicago. But chicago hasn't won a cup in an entire season! of course there's no faith LOL. I am really starting to hate THN. anti-fighting trolling trash Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaintPatrick33 Posted July 13, 2016 Share Posted July 13, 2016 They must have only interviewed people in the East...of course any poll on the Nucks mgmt will have them dead last. Montreal deserves bottom spot, any GM who chooses a lame coach like Therrien over PK deserves to get fired. Add to this the complaint against JB for tampering and you have one S#)%(* GM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X-PatLostInEdm Posted July 13, 2016 Share Posted July 13, 2016 If the question was how much faith the fanbases had in the LEAGUE offices, I'd say we were in the right spot. But I also notice the bottom 5 on this list are all big markets or hockey-mad. More likely to have complainers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baka Posted July 13, 2016 Share Posted July 13, 2016 200 people.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jam126 Posted July 13, 2016 Share Posted July 13, 2016 Oh boy! Draft rankings are already out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jstewboy Posted July 13, 2016 Share Posted July 13, 2016 I've been ripping into media click bait fools all day on this DUI style reporting. One of the worst things I've ever seen put out there to stir the s#!t pot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xbox Posted July 13, 2016 Share Posted July 13, 2016 55 minutes ago, GettinGuddyWithIt said: Don't worry of course Canucks are going to be last and most hated on...while other teams like Ottawa (no free agent signings after a mediocre season) or Florida (look at the moves the Panthers have been making after this record breaking season..I wouldnt trust the front office for s%#*) are favoured more. Whatever I trust Linden and Benning and that my 2 cents. Our owner may be against a full rebuild, but at least he'll spend to win. Ottawa's internal cap is a joke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeNiro Posted July 13, 2016 Share Posted July 13, 2016 28 minutes ago, Baka said: 200 people.... Exactly. That's less than 7 people per team if it was actually spread out evenly (which it wasn't). This is why the HockeyNews is a pretty poor website for articles. They really need to recruit better writers. I get that it's summer and all and there's not much content, but this is far from article worthy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madness Posted July 13, 2016 Share Posted July 13, 2016 Maybe soon we'll be 31st. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimberWolf Posted July 13, 2016 Share Posted July 13, 2016 I think Benning sucks but even I can't get behind an article that claims he's 29th in drafting or drafting confidence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkstar Posted July 13, 2016 Share Posted July 13, 2016 1 hour ago, Xbox said: How tf is Carolina 14th? They should be 29th. If Ownership is "front office" Ottawa has to be 30th. Hearing "We're a top 5 team that should of made the playoffs" and "We don't need to spend anymore than 64M" would piss me off. Ron Francis has been amazing in Carolina so far. 14th is great for them. Vancouver is definitely bottom ten but not sure about dead last. I agree that Ottawa should be last. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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