lol I pretty much turned it off/stopped paying attention after the results...oy vey. I don't know whether he brought the tanking culture there or it engulfed him upon arrival but either way it's embarassing to say that. About as bad as the Sabres GM admitting he was dreaming about McDavid last year.
I'll be happy with Keller/Jost, but my god, what an embarrassment. Tanking gets rewarded...
They had a better chance of getting 4th than 1st and when it came to the last ball they had a small chance.
I don't get why you guys are so obsessed with how other teams try to get better and even if the Devils become a good team in the future it wouldn't be done without high picks--Larsson was a 4th overall, Schneider required a 9th overall pick to get him here, Zacha is a 6th overall. And another thing Toronto made the playoffs more recently than the Devils so if they're embarrassing then aren't the Devils too?
after they brought him up they didn't send him down until their season ended.
Yeah and look who's the GM of that team. The guy who built those good Devils teams thinks they have a good plan. I don't view the Devils as an embarrassment nor do I view the Leafs as an embarrassment for what they are and what they are doing because of failings by their past GMs. It's just that you can't have it one way and look the other way for the Devils.
To me Lou's just there as a guy that'll make the trades and be a consigliere to Shanny and his cronies.
nah i wanted lou gone i'm just wondering how people can bring up past devils teams and then criticize the Leafs for what they're doing now with Lou there. What he's doing with the Leafs now is what he should have done here and if he did that I wouldn't have want him gone.
ExactlyLou never even came close to tanking here, even in his early days. That's another reason I don't believe this was nearly all him. He was doing everything humanly possible to compete when there was really no reason to try to keep a comatose patient alive the last couple years.
Hope you're reppin over there? ;-)
Well gm's learn from their mistakes and I don't know what he was thinking only he himself knows that but here he was trying to push a dead team to the playoffs. Maybe he got orders from above to try to win or if he wanted a long-term plan then Harris would look elsewhere for someone to carry out a long-term approach. Maybe if he writes a autobiography we'll all find out what transpired.Then why do you believe he suddenly changed his ideals to do that there? Do you honestly believe it was a wake up call and something went off in his head?
I really don't think Lou is nearly the top dog there.
Lou never even came close to tanking here, even in his early days. That's another reason I don't believe this was nearly all him. He was doing everything humanly possible to compete when there was really no reason to try to keep a comatose patient alive the last couple years.
Well gm's learn from their mistakes and I don't know what he was thinking only he himself knows that but here he was trying to push a dead team to the playoffs. Maybe he got orders from above to try to win or if he wanted a long-term plan then Harris would look elsewhere for someone to carry out a long-term approach. Maybe if he writes a autobiography we'll all find out what transpired.
Even if he isn't top dog there he still signed on to that plan.
Lou traded a proven defenseman in 1989 for a chance at Eric Lindros two years later. And when he came in he had the 2nd overall pick which was Shanahan so one of the high picks was already there. And it's different time periods so it's hard to compare.
http://fireandice.northjersey.com/f...r-with-scott-niedermayer-pick-in-1991-1.94035
I don't think Lou is really the GM there, other than in name only.
It's obvious he has more say there than he would have had staying here, or else he probably wouldn't have left in the first place. Or at least I'd have to assume.
If Lou was still the Devils GM, you can bet that he would have been the one in attendance on our behalf tonight. I think Shanahan is really running things there.
Obviously they have adopted Lou policies, like facial hair, no media on team planes. The things that Toronto has done this year hockey wise though, seem to go against a lot of the things Lou practiced for so long. I'm talking rebuilding in particular.
I'm pretty confident that Lou is pretty much the Lieutenant there. Not the General.
Agreed. Lou is a puppet there. If he called the shots why was Shanny there? This is not Lou's team and he does not call the shots. He's there to advise Shanny, which is fine, but he's not the GM.