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My biggest gripe is signing all these tweener third pairing guys. We draft somewhat well and have people in the pipeline who are being held out of a job (ie: orlov) who need to be playing. Hillen Erskine oleksy strachan... That's this years list and it's been going in for too long. Play Orlov. He deserves it and had earned it. The sad part is the fan base here sees it. Fan bases of other teams see it and obviously Orlov sees it. For the crap he's put up with this year he's been a pretty Damn good sport. Uncle teddy needs to lay off the marijuana's and see what GM has done to this organization.
My biggest gripe is signing all these tweener third pairing guys. We draft somewhat well and have people in the pipeline who are being held out of a job (ie: orlov) who need to be playing. Hillen Erskine oleksy strachan... That's this years list and it's been going in for too long. Play Orlov. He deserves it and had earned it. The sad part is the fan base here sees it. Fan bases of other teams see it and obviously Orlov sees it. For the crap he's put up with this year he's been a pretty Damn good sport. Uncle teddy needs to lay off the marijuana's and see what GM has done to this organization.
GMGM has had a history of not valuing the D.
I'll rephrase that...he does value his puck moving D (Mironov, Pothier, Poti signings and trades for guys like Corvo)
In the Jagr era he traded and signed guys like Nylander and Lang while picking up scrubs on D like Kwiakowski and Doig.
He inhereted a respectable but aging D of Calle/Tinordi, Reekie/Gonchar, Witt/Klee and milked them for as long as he could never replacing them until drafting some post lockout.
Has he learned his lesson on this? I'd say no.
His drafting has gotten better and he finally has realized that we need to be more physical but the D has always been his achilles.
How we can go into the last several seasons of Ovechkin's prime relying on kid Dmen escapes me.
the problem for Orlov is that he didn't out play Schmidt. You didn't mention Schmidt or Urbom but Hillen was essentially a place holder for Schmidt. Urbom was there to replace Hillen after he broke his leg. Erskine has a different role than Orlov and Oleksy plays a different position.
I will admit that I don't understand the fascination with Strachan all of a sudden. But that's Oates. Oates had no interest in playing Orlov, btw. McPhee is responsible for hiring Oates but its Oates that doesn't like Orlov. Proof of that mess is the Erat deal which is entirely Oates and it only makes McPhee look bad.
Kypreos states that McPhee is in the final year of his deal and could perhaps become a GM option for Burke in Calgary:
http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/...ens-sabres-flames-canucks-panthers-islanders/
Kypreos states that McPhee is in the final year of his deal and could perhaps become a GM option for Burke in Calgary:
http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/...ens-sabres-flames-canucks-panthers-islanders/
And who would be brought in to replace him? I don't like McPhee like most everyone else but I'm not exactly sure there's anyone to really replace him that'd be a pretty surefire thing.
The Jim Nill and Kekalaisngnenanenananenenan trains have left the station. I think Paul Fenton would make a good GM.
The Jim Nill and Kekalaisngnenanenananenenan trains have left the station. I think Paul Fenton would make a good GM.
And who would be brought in to replace him? I don't like McPhee like most everyone else but I'm not exactly sure there's anyone to really replace him that'd be a pretty surefire thing.
I do not personally know how to perform heart surgery but I'm pretty sure a guy with seriously clogged arteries needs it done, and there are people who can do it.
There are never any guarantees in sports management. If there were then we'd all know the winners beforehand, wouldn't we?
I think that's a poor analogy. Its not as if GMGM is the worst GM in the league and there are a few teams that would kill to have him as their GM.
He's doing the job well enough for the patient to still be living, as evident by us making the playoffs basically ever year, but he just can't do anything more to get us over the hump and has only built a team that can just make it to the show. Again, a lot of teams would kill for that.