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If Dallas upsets Colorado and makes the final four, does Jim Nill get some credit?
In recent years, I and other people who were Nill fans when he was in Detroit have soured on his performance in Dallas.
Clearly, Nill has some flaws.
His drafting hasn't been very good at all.
Outside of Heiskanen, it's hard to find a good first round pick by Nill. Gurianov is kind of debatable, despite a good playoff.
We've yet to see him have a late-round pick go gold, either.
And yet, here they are potentially going to the final 4.
They've made the playoffs 4 of 7 years. They've only had one really awful regular season and they turned that into Heiskanen.
This is their 3rd time in the final 8 in the last five years.
Everyone talked about Nill as a drafter. But really, he seems to have found his niche finding veterans who fit in and keeping his useful guys around.
Among the veterans? Perry. Pavelski. Radulov. Comeau.
Khudobin looks like a starter after having a long journeyman-like career.
I don't know. You look at this lineup, and it just doesn't look like a team built to win.
When they signed Pavelski and Perry, it just seemed like desperation. And yet, here they are.
In recent years, I and other people who were Nill fans when he was in Detroit have soured on his performance in Dallas.
Clearly, Nill has some flaws.
His drafting hasn't been very good at all.
Outside of Heiskanen, it's hard to find a good first round pick by Nill. Gurianov is kind of debatable, despite a good playoff.
We've yet to see him have a late-round pick go gold, either.
And yet, here they are potentially going to the final 4.
They've made the playoffs 4 of 7 years. They've only had one really awful regular season and they turned that into Heiskanen.
This is their 3rd time in the final 8 in the last five years.
Everyone talked about Nill as a drafter. But really, he seems to have found his niche finding veterans who fit in and keeping his useful guys around.
Among the veterans? Perry. Pavelski. Radulov. Comeau.
Khudobin looks like a starter after having a long journeyman-like career.
I don't know. You look at this lineup, and it just doesn't look like a team built to win.
When they signed Pavelski and Perry, it just seemed like desperation. And yet, here they are.