Napoli
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- Oct 4, 2023
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The Doug Maclean hire was a setback that cost us a decade plus. I'm from the Maritimes and I have family that is old friends with Doug, including some that have coached with him when he was just starting. They would laugh and say "he is full of beans" anytime he came up. Everyone likes him personally, but he's not the type you have GM a hockey team. Great salesman, built a great arena, but unfortunately he fooled our owner along with it.
As I argue above, that's where most of the extra losing comes from. After that you have very well respected people like Scott Howson AND later John Davidson coming aboard, with more mixed results. There's no reason to lump them all into one thing.
Don't think anyone is lumping them all together. There's been good and bad from multiple GMs. The constant (ownership) is the one that deserves the blame as they haven't proven to know how to build a winner.