Twenty-Five thousand Montréalers came down on Carrey Price last night, the Montreal Canadians goalie and not a reaction from Price. Price has allot to prove and last night’s fall was not his fault but a poor management decision. Price had allot to live up to, he had to live to Jaroslav Halák instant fame, last year’s goalie who quickly became a Montreal Icon, a hockey god! I don’t know very many people who can live up to those standards. How many people do you know can become the next Lady Gaga over night?

Imagine yourself in his pads, it’s the first game of the season and you have 50,000 eyes pried on you, cameras and the media waiting to rip you apart. The pressure behind game one, a game which is a mere practice and the entire population expects you to perform at your very best. It’s a recipe for disaster.

Management being smart would never have let their star goalie work the ice, they would have had Mr. Backup prove himself this game and possibly the next two or three game all while having Price would train day in day out. They would have then starred him as the Saviour, and at this point he would have been ready to take on the world. Try and fix the man now!

Management is about timing, it’s about putting the right people in the right place and it’s about hard work and proper training. Hockey and business or sports and business marry themselves very well. Not much difference over all. Take a car dealer’s new star salesman with little training on the product and slam him on the floor. You’re lucky if he sells one car that day, week or month. Once his ego is crushed it’ll take you more recovery time than an injured sports icon to recover from an emotional disaster.

The only people to blame here is management and how poor they delivered. Donald Trump would have said “You’re fired” several times to the media today. As for Carey Price, he was a victim of a serious oversight and nothing but!

Remember, managers should be team leaders; team leaders think before acting or they get shot on the front lines. Only once a great manager gets his hands dirty, his white shirt magenta from the bloodshed and only then will he or she make the right decisions.

Eric

(Source: belecnet.com)