Jarmo has had his job for years. He has reached the second round of the playoffs once. I was a Jarmo fan. But the last several years Jarmo has been awful.
Jarmo deserves absolutely no credit for drafting very highly rated guys like Jiricek and Fantilli the last two years. Any GM could have done that with really high draft picks from having bad seasons. Anybody on this board would have made those picks. Those bad seasons weren’t intentional - Jarmo was trying to win, but he built teams with horrible defense and horrible goal tending and those teams finished way behind most teams. So don’t tell me Jarmo is awesome because he drafted a consensus #2 draft pick with the third pick after we were so atrocious.
Yes. It is time for a new GM to come in and evaluate our talent that we largely accumulated through sucking, and figure out how to move forward.
If I sucked at my job for the last 4 years I would expect to be fired. In my office if I had hired a creepy guy who searched young people’s phones, I would be fired for that alone. But we have accountability where I work.
Our defense:
Werenski, Jones
Gavrikov, SAVARD
MURRAY/Nuutivara/Kukan
With the exception of Savard and Murray, it was Jarmo who built the defense more. Now it's our defense
Werenski, Severson
Provorov, Jiříček
Bean, Gudbranson
Boqvist/Peeke/Blankenburg/Svozil (not including juniors)
so much for defense.
To acquire players. Maybe you haven't noticed, but we are not Tampa, Florida, Rangers, Colorado and similar teams that just point to a player and he will come. We have to pay over. We also never had a chance to get centers like McDavid, Eichel, Barkov, Mackinnon, Hughes, Matthews or Hischier. And it is thanks to them that their teams have solved perhaps the most important spot together with the goalie.
Or do you have another solution? I would like to hear how we were supposed to get TOP centers, players who agreed to a lower salary. Or as behind Johnson or Jiříček there were AHL level players, so Jarmo had an easy decision. Alternatively, the strategy of building a team, maintaining PLD, preventing injuries, etc. Yes, he made a mistake with the appointment of Larsen and Babcock. But he's not the only GM whose HC pick didn't work out.
EDIT: You always have to start from the possibilities that the team has. And also because of the wishes of the owners. Remember how in the past the management wanted the team to play in the PO, so instead of building the team we took veterans. Only in the last year, Howson could start to tank. That certainly applied to Jarmo. Torts is not here because the team is trying to get places in the TOP 5, or even in the TOP 3 several times in a row.