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Entry discrimination in the NHL: Evolution and the KHL effect

Entry discrimination in the NHL: Evolution and the KHL effect. Tom Christie and Marc Lavoie. Preliminaries. There have been lots of studies on salary determination in the NHL, and by extension on salary discrimination

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Entry discrimination in the NHL: Evolution and the KHL effect

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  1. Entry discrimination in the NHL:Evolution and the KHL effect Tom Christie and Marc Lavoie

  2. Preliminaries • There have been lots of studies on salary determination in the NHL, and by extension on salary discrimination • There have been fewer studies on the issue of entry discrimination in the NHL. • This discrimination could affect Europeans, Americans and French Canadians, to the benefit of English Canadians • One way of ascertaining the presence of entry discrimination is to compare the future performance of players relative to the rank at which they were drafted. Click View then Header and Footer to change this text

  3. DISCRIMINATION IN THE NHLQuebec Hockey Players Sidelined Bob Sirois 2009, 2010 Click View then Header and Footer to change this text

  4. Entry and hiring discrimination • “When I talk about discrimination, I’m talking about equal or comparable talent. Most NHL teams, at equal talent or comparable talent, will not take a Quebecer, will not take a European, they will not even take an American player, they will take a good ol’ Canadian boy.” • …. Former Devils Star Bobby Holik replied, “I agree with him 100%. Because I’ve experienced it myself where I believe I had to fight for my spot, fight for my ice time, more and longer than the Western Canadians or Ontario-born and raised.” • Bob Sirois, author of Discrimination in the NHLMontreal, November 16, 2010 Click View then Header and Footer to change this text

  5. Prejudices and poor information • “Talent scouting is much more a question of intuition, feeling or even gut instinct. Myths, prejudices, stereotypes and favouritism are an integral part of each National Hockey League draft” • (Sirois 2010, p. 30). Click View then Header and Footer to change this text

  6. Previous studies, with simplest modelDependent variable: career points per game Click View then Header and Footer to change this text

  7. Have things changed in nearly 20 years? • 20 years have gone by • People may hold less prejudices • Financial constraints on teams limited by the salary caps may induce teams to be more efficient in their scouting and hiring decisions • New technology allows scouts to get access to more information and more visuals of prospective draftees, thus reducing uncertainty in appraisal • Hence, with less uncertainty, less biased decisions should be taken Click View then Header and Footer to change this text

  8. Dependent variable: career points per game Click View then Header and Footer to change this text

  9. It would seem that scouting is more efficient …. Click View then Header and Footer to change this text

  10. Two more more complex model (constant and draft rank left out of results) …. Click View then Header and Footer to change this text

  11. What about Europeans and Americans? • More information available than in the past, thus less uncertainty, and less possible bias. • However, European leagues may be more developed than in the past, in particular the Russian KHL, so that NHL teams run the risk of seeing their European draft picks declining to play in North America. • Repeat regression (2), adding Europeans and Americans to the sample of 2009-2010 players Click View then Header and Footer to change this text

  12. How about Europeans and Americans? Click View then Header and Footer to change this text

  13. How about isolating the Russians? Click View then Header and Footer to change this text

  14. Conclusions • There is still no apparent entry discrimination against American hockey players. • Entry discrimination against French Canadian hockey players seems to have disappeared. • There is still apparent entry discrimination against non-Russian European hockey players, but less so than before. • There is a strong and obvious KHL effect against Russian hockey players, which discourages NHL teams from drafting young Russian players as early as they should. Click View then Header and Footer to change this text

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