Laurence Gilman has this story he likes to tell.



The yarn, as it goes, explains what the former Canucks assistant GM considers one of the most important jobs he’s ever had. This job did not, however, come during his lengthy career as a front office executive. And it didn’t come after graduating law school at North Dakota.



No, the gig Gilman holds near and dear was the one he got when he was 17 years old — scrubbing dishes at The Keg steakhouse in Winnipeg.



“It’s where I learned to be a member of a team,” Gilman told The Athletic of his decade-long stint at the restaurant, where he worked his way up from the back to front of house. “Irrespective of what the role was, whether you’re working in the dish pit, or as a busboy, or whether you’re a waiter generating a high degree of revenue for the restaurant, you learn your role as a team member and how to serve to the best of your...