Year after year, as Los Angeles Dodgers GM, Ned Colletti guided his team to the playoffs. And year after year, he used the same viewing setup for those games: on the field below him, postseason baseball, and on a TV inside his ballpark suite, regular-season hockey.
“I saw [Dodgers president Stan Kasten] at Dodger Stadium yesterday,” says Colletti, a newly minted scout for the NHL’s San Jose Sharks. “He said, ‘I’m not surprised. I always wondered if your first love was baseball or hockey.’” Colletti laughs. “It’s probably a dead heat.”
Colletti spent 30 years in baseball, nine at the top of the profession.