StayAtHomeAv
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I wouldn't hope that dumpster fire upon anyone, let alone someone I would like to see succeed.
Just like how we are complaining about Bednar again in the other thread(s)
I just cannot understand what a baboon Sakic is with hiring coaches, do not let that man pick a coaching staff ever. Otherwise lately he has been doing OK, not great but an improvement over the madness that was his first few years, but then again the bar has been set really low in the first place.
Sakic is also the guy who thought it would be a great idea to keep Tim Army around for years. It goes beyond Bednar. The Avs have been among the worst coached teams in the league for as long as Sakic has been the GM. I wouldn't expect much when Bednar is eventually replaced.
The discussion was whether or not the Avs would be better off if they had stuck with Roy instead of Sakic. I don't see what's wrong with discussing that.
A big NO for hiring Roy as the GM. This organization needs to stay far far away from anyone with ties to them, unless its a slam dunk like hiring Q as the coach again. Bring in new blood with a fresh perspective, not someone who is used to the Avalanche way.
I'd just like to say, for all the misery he has put fans though in the past year or so, Sakic just got a great return for Duchene. Sure, there's no Chabot, but there's a lot of good building pieces, and I think this Girard kid is going to be something special. Add in Bowers, Kamenev, and three more picks, and Sakic is actually heading in the right direction.
I would've preferred a Serg/Chabot/Hanifin return obviously, but this is a very good consolation.
This deal was great (could be legendary trade with some luck on development) most the others weren't, simple as that.
ROR was a complicated case but the return has been disappointing so far.
I don't blame him for the Roy drama though, I would most probably have hired Roy myself. ;-) The Roy failure was a very painful one for all of us remembering the past.
According to Dorion's press conference this is not accurate. The trade was done between Sakic and Dorion 7-10 days ago but they couldn't get NAS to sign off on it because they couldn't sign Turris. MacFarland and Fenton put it back on the table beacause everybody still wanted it to happen. What really made this trade happened was Turris realizing that him re-signing in OTT was not going to happen as OTT only offered 5 years and they wanted Duchene really bad.Everyone wins in this trade at first glance. Duchene goes where he wanted to go, Nashville gets their coveted 2nd line center, Avs get much-needed organizational depth.
Pierre Dorion said the groundwork for this trade was initiated by Chris MacFarland and Nashville's assistant GM, who both happened to run into one another scouting a college game (I think that's what he said). If so that's some great work from the guy and it answers a questions I posited earlier in this thread.