Well it’s about putting a winning team on ice in three seasons and ever since winning the cup with the majority of a gmgm roster and the coach being hired by dick and ted - it has been a decline since.
Since winning the cup they're 178 - 98 - 36, that's including this years stats. Outside of 16 and 17, that's basically as good or better as they've been for a decade.
He hasn’t produced any real good prospects. Hershey is regarded as a bottom 10 development into nhl player minor leagues.
That's as much a product of going "all in" for multiple years in a row, which was requested by the fanbase in it's entirety, as anything else. And they've
still produced good players, but the coaching staffs refused to use them. Since being GM he brought in Vrana, Vanecek, Samsonov, Siegenthaler, Fehervary, Lapierre, Protas, and CMM. That's ignoring them graduating guys like Stephensen and Schmidt and then just refusing to play them in anything but a short minute grinder role. The only really awful draft is probably the 2016 draft, but we have no idea what we have in Lucas Johansen so that could go from awful to meh. 2017 they didn't pick until the 4th round. From 18 on the coaching staff is refusing to allow prospects to truly graduate.
But he was with us long before 14 too, and as Director of Player Personnel and Assistant GM. He also drafted guys like Burakovsky, Sanford, Forsberg, Wilson, Stephenson, Kuznetsov, Johansson, Orlov, Eakin, and Carlson. Guess he's just trash at getting prospects.
Then let the worst coach since Oates (maybe even worse than him) take over and get absolutely dominated/outcoacged for way too long
Reirden was the heir apparent from the get go, and Ted was the one who was the deciding factor on those calls. At least give Ted some credit, he fired him extremely fast for his normal time frame but I'm not sure how you can put all, or even most, of that blame on GMBM.
his free agency signing have been absolutely trash past few years, and now is a bottom 10 team almost 1/3 of the season.
Milano? Strome? Kuemper? Lindgren? Sheary? Trevor Van Riemsdyk? It's kinda ridiculous to try to invalidate literally everything someone's done because they've done bad right now. You have to take into account, and I feel put more weight into, judging a team on the process then only the results. And GMBM has had, generally, a very good process.
Oh, and we are old with few prospects to have hope it’ll get any better. The few guys we do have hope on get 5 mins a game and benched in they don’t play while Hagelin, eller, hathaway, down, etc all get 3-4x the minutes.
These are all complaints against Lavi, dunno what it has to do with GMBM.
Meh. I was all for moving Eller and letting McMichael run with it, but you can't give MacLellan credit for this. If a GM wants to make a move, he should make it. If you want him to start one guy over another and you're going to get bent when he doesn't, that's on you. Trade the other guy. Give him no choice. You can't let the coach manage the team. That's your job.
That isn't how real life works though. If a GM started just unloading anyone the coach liked he wouldn't have a job very long. The way I've always looked at it is your Coach is the chef and the GM is closer to the product supplier. You can give the Chef all the ingredients you want but what he makes is up to him.
I like MacLellan, but he needs to be more decisive. It's like he keeps hedging to give himself cover if his ideas fail. "But boss, I wanted him to play the kid; he just didn't!" Lost too many good, young, cost-controlled players that way. If he learns this one lesson, he'd be one of the best GMs in the league.
But like...that's literally what you want from your front office. That'd be awful GMing if you don't try to set up redundancies in personnel decision making. The goal should probably have been they rode someone like CMM as a top 3 center and if he fails you have Eller to fall back on.
And I feel like anyone
really doo doo'ing on Eller right now is using a lot of hindsight. He hasn't been as dominant as he was in 18 or 19, but he was still perfectly fine as a bottom 2 center last year. His drop off in ability was not overly apparent.
