2018-19 Milbury Trophy

[goonybird]

Dorion. It's Dorion. At least when Edmonton finishes last they get a generational talent before they trade him away for nothing.

 

[Rpenny]

Rob Blake for retaining Desjardins.

He's been fired

 

[Ace Card Bedard]

It's Dorion.

 

[Rabid Ranger]

He's been fired

Right, that happened after I posted that. Good on Blake!

 

[Machinehead]

How about a shoe that blows up?

 

[MMC]

Murray deserves it for re-hiring Randy Carlyle.

That happened almost 3 years ago.

 

[Lemmiwinks]

Judging by how much joyful entertainment he gave me this year, my vote is for Chia.

 

[ThreeLeftSkates]

Is the trophy really a shoe?

 

[Rpenny]

Can it be awarded posthumously to Chia?

Strome for garbage and then picking up Manning from the Hawks is easy slam dunks for me

 

[TheAngryHank]

Due to grace period... The Milbury goes to Mike Milbury

Grace periods are for true generational talents like Milbury. Comedy

 

[Spawn]

Chiarelli’s deals prior to being fired this season are mind numbing to think about.

They were all uniformly terrible.

Strome for Spooner (waived)
6th rounder for wideman (played like 6 games before being dumped)
Caggiula for manning (waived)
Wideman and 3rd for petrovic (ended up as the #8 to end the season)
Koskinen 4 year deal at more than 4 per for a goalie who had fewer than 50 starts in the NHL and had already proven that his hot start was a mirage.

Worst GM in the league ainefc.

 

[Gardner McKay]

Can we rename this award the Chiarelli Trophy?

 

[dire wolf]

Not enough Rob Blake in this thread.

 

[DudeWhereIsMakar]

Chiarelli still wins it. I know he's with no NHL team but still, he wins it by a mile. The Koskinen contract, trading for Manning, he practically damaged Edmonton for years to come. The Oilers, Edmonton and Oiler fans didn't deserve that one bit.

We might have to even re-name this trophy to the Chiarelli trophy.

Hope Chiarelli ends up in Arizona one day. He and Milbury actually, would be entertaining to see what they do together.

 

[notsocommonsense]

2 pages and Bennings name not even mentioned til now. Hes really grown from being a bottom 2 GM to being a bottom 4 GM. Thats growth. At this rate we should be back in the playoffs by 2040

Came here for the absurd shot at Benning

Usual suspect provides usual content

 

[ahmedou]

Bergevin will be the Mildbury Trophy fan favorite over his decade as a GM...

 

[Tage2Tuch]

Botterill has to at least be mentioned.

Because of ONE trade where we still may end up with a very good prospect from this years first round while opening up cap room for skinner who we stole in a deal for cliff pu. Come on man, he even listened and fired housley he deserves more time to be judged as a bad GM let alone the worst in the entire game. (Looks at username) oh i get it now.

 

[RandV]

I think Dorion gets the long term distinction here. If you isolate the moves from June 2018 to June 2019 it's not that bad, but take a step back and look at it from an expanded view you're losing Karlsson, Stone, and the 4th OV/Duchene all for deadline rental assets. That's the type of thing you need a couple seasons to accomplish and the end result is pretty brutal. Ownership obviously is a huge hindrance but Dorion is still the guy left running the team.

 

[Kaners Bald Spot]

Bergevin will be the Mildbury Trophy fan favorite over his decade as a GM...

I'm convinced Bergevin only has a job because Habs ownership cannot find anyone else qualified that speaks French.

 

[ahmedou]

I'm convinced Bergevin only has a job because Habs ownership cannot find anyone else qualified that speaks French.

We got what we deserved with that useless requirement. Btw, it's even worse MB is killing the french tongue when he's speaking it.

 

[Kaners Bald Spot]

We got what we deserved with that useless requirement. Btw, it's even worse MB is killing the french tongue when he's speaking it.

Lol.

 

[BlueDream]

Because of ONE trade where we still may end up with a very good prospect from this years first round while opening up cap room for skinner who we stole in a deal for cliff pu. Come on man, he even listened and fired housley he deserves more time to be judged as a bad GM let alone the worst in the entire game. (Looks at username) oh i get it now.

You sound upset, as usual.

 

[Tage2Tuch]

You sound upset, as usual.

I’m not at all, I love berube by the way he’s an old friend of my dads in Alberta and I met him when I was 8 so I’m totally going for the blues!

 

[BlueDream]

I’m not at all, I love berube by the way he’s an old friend of my dads in Alberta and I met him when I was 8 so I’m totally going for the blues!

Oh right on. Yeah he seems like a cool guy.

 

[Tage2Tuch]

Oh right on. Yeah he seems like a cool guy.

And it goes deeper the blues are always a team I’ve cheered for every playoffs whether buffalo was in or not because they would never play (obviously) so I always would cheer for the blues in whatever series they were in and there’s been a lot of years this decade where the blues would be a team I’d want to come out of the entire west.

Was I upset about the whole ROR thing and subsequent posts by blues fans, sure but at the end of the day he’s a great player, a likeable guy, I don’t blame him for being upset with the losing, all the other guys who are still in buffalo are too, and while that did effect my liking of the blues for a couple months I’m right back to loving them because at the end of the day not only what I said about ROR but the binnington story, but most importantly? Cheering for the team who’s been in the league the longest that’s never won.