Avs Win!
After starting the season 0-3, the Colorado Avalanche finally won one tonight – that means excitement and peace in the family – for now at least! Slow starts in hockey aren’t unusual, but the consequences of slow starts are brutal – especially on the coaches. The Chicago Blackhawks already canned their coach after a poor start…it was very conceivable that others would end up with the same fate.
To put that in perspective…the Blackhawks were 1-2-1 on the season…just 4 games into an 82 game season…and the coach was canned. The Blackhawks brought in Joel Quenneville to be the new coach; Quenneville was available because the Avalanche fired him after coaching the Avs to the playoffs last year.
I can only imagine what business would be like if we had the same mentality for our business leadership that they have for hockey coaches. Suppose we have a slow start in the first quarter and we’re coming up short on revenue or income…whack…the leader is replaced and for just a short period of time the company rebounds with new wins…with those wins that were delayed for that quarter, the company then meets its budget targets for the next quarter and then for the year…all credit goes to the new leader. That’s the way it happens in hockey. Not sure it would be quite that way in business.
Regardless, AVS WIN!!!!! My 14 year old just came in and told me how cool it was to see their first win…she was of course at the game…now she’ll finally sleep good…and might even be acceptable to live with for now!