The Seattle Kraken now have a new assistant general manager, and it is one that made her name in the field of analytics. According to Emily Kaplan of ESPN, Alexandra Mandrycky has been promoted to the AGM position, from her previous role as director of hockey administration. Mandrycky was one of the first hires the Kraken ever made, before Ron Francis had even been brought in as general manager.
Mandrycky is the sixth woman this offseason to be promoted to assistant general manager, after the Vancouver Canucks essentially broke the glass ceiling by hiring Emilie Castonguay and Cammi Granato. Francis directly addressed some of the comments that are sure to follow this announcement:
I’ve always been in the school of thought that you find the best person available for the job. Alex isn’t getting this promotion because she’s a female. It’s because she’s earned this promotion, there’s no doubt about it. She’s already been involved in all facets of our organization, from the pro side to amateur to management discussions.
Mandrycky, 31, worked as an analyst with the Minnesota Wild for four years before joining Seattle, where one colleague called her an “unassuming superstar” that was destined for bigger things. She landed that job by being one of the founders of war-on-ice.com, a statistical modeling site that attempted to find advantages through analytics.
Now, after more than seven years in NHL front offices, she has received a bigger role and taken another step forward in her career. If there was a betting line on who would be the first female general manager in the NHL, Mandrycky would certainly be among the favorites, even at her relatively young age.
Do these women realize that they are being patronized by these politically correct hires?
Dude, what’s wrong with you? Since when do you need a penis to understand hockey?
^thats bait^
Wilf, at this point I have to assume that your string of bad posts is intentional. Amusing though. I also must assume that you were bullied by some girls at a point in your life – you seem very intimidated by females.
If you can’t at least see that these hires are being “recommended” by the league, then you need to stop looking at genitalia and reconsider things.
Does anyone really think that all 32 teams, all of their own accord, suddenly realized that they really need to start hiring women for these positions? And many of them may be good at their new jobs, time will tell, but this isn’t happening organically.
You just have a smol penus @gbear
Did i mention that you have a smool penis?
Also why are you afraid of women?
Also your penis its small
No, we think there was this huge taboo about hiring women, because the special snowflakes and pu$$y boyz like the ones here were gonna have a hissy fit over it and whine “Woke!woke!woke!” And a couple teams hired some, and the sky didn’t fall, and a couple more did, and the sky still didn’t fall, and no one’s penises fell off.
There was no “taboo” about hiring women, there was simply no reason to do so. Women’s hockey is to Men’s hockey what fast pitch softball is to hardball. Similarities but fundemental differences.
As for Artem 99, thamk you for beclowning yourself in public. Now stop staring at your thing!
32?
I’d really like to know just how large of a role she played in the debacle of an expansion draft
Ask her.
What I took away from Clark’s article there, was that Alexandra didn’t appear to be one who gets sucked into the statistical trap, as many others do. That trap is to decide the outcome, then add/discard data to make your hypothesis true. She seems to be one to gather the data, then see where it leads her. Like others, you can have a predictive nature that might say, “this guy should be great on the PP”, but then the data will reveal otherwise. Some of the reason that happens is “snapshot scouting”, as Burkie refers to it. Having the discipline to not be locked into a yea/nay opinion on a player’s merits, but rather let the data determine where the evaluation should be, is important. It’s almost the statistician’s equivalent of “pick up the flag”, after making an error in judgement/calculations.
“Only white men are qualified for JOBS!!!! Everyone else but us is a token hire!!!!”
And then…the chef’s kiss of irony…
“They don’t even realize they are being patronized!!!!” they tell each other over and over.
Hey, look, Mr. Strawman argument is here!
Name the person who objected to Mike Grier becoming the GM of the Sharks? And that’s because he was highly qualified for the job. Highly qualified being the key words.
No @gbear youre wrong. Also you have a smol peanuth
@forwhomjoshbelltolled your takes are so absurd it always makes me wonder if this is some perverse post modernist cringe trolling
Artem 99 has a weenie fetish. It’s quite embarrassing.