2018 NHL GM Rankings #1

[M2Beezy]

Well time for the last major HFBoards rankings for the summer before the season starts. Last years results will NO DOUBT be quite different from how will rank em this year. Who will go 1st?? YOU DECIDE

2017 HFBoards Results:

01 NASH Poile 31% http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showthread.php?p=134445321
02 PITT Rutherford 21% http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showthread.php?t=2368415
03 TB Yzerman 39% http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showthread.php?t=2368819
04 DALL Nill 17% http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showthread.php?t=2369103
05 PHI Hextall 17% http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showthread.php?t=2369677
06 ANA Murray 24% http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showthread.php?t=2370037
07 TOR Lamorello 18% http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showthread.php?t=2370385
08 COLU Kekalainan 18% http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showthread.php?t=2370771
09 CGY Treliving 35% http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showthread.php?t=2371101
10 CHI Bowman 28% http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showthread.php?t=2371361
11 Car Francis 25% http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showthread.php?t=2371635
12 ARI Chayka 24% http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showthread.php?t=2371947
13 EDM Chiarrelli 19% http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showthread.php?t=2372295
14 MINN Fletcher 36% http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showthread.php?t=2372837
15 NJ Shero 28% http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showthread.php?t=2373197
16 NYR Gorton 36% http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showthread.php?t=2376461
17 STL Armstrong 28% http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showthread.php?t=2376759
18 VAN Benning 21% http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showthread.php?t=2377053
19 OTT Dorion 27% http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showthread.php?t=2377313
20 WPG Cheveldayoff 33% http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showthread.php?t=2378187
21 SJ Wilson 36% http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showthread.php?t=2378461
22 WSH Maclellan 40% http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showthread.php?t=2378703
23 Buff Botterhill 32% http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showthread.php?t=2379139
24 FLA Tallon 33% http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showthread.php?t=2379371
25 DET Holland 24% http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showthread.php?t=2379619
26 BOS Sweeney 27% http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showthread.php?t=2379845
27 LAK Blake http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showthread.php?t=2380145
28 NYI Snow 44% http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showthread.php?t=2380413
29 VEG Mcphee 54% http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showthread.php?t=2380637
30 MON Bergevin https://hfboards.mandatory.com/threads/hfboards-gm-rankings-30.2380921/
31 COL Sakic https://hfboards.mandatory.com/threads/hfboards-gm-rankings-30.2380921/

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[VoluntaryDom]

David Poile

 

[Bounces R Way]

Yzerman for me. Built a powerhouse through good trades and terrific drafting. I like Poille and all but he's been there 20 years.

 

[Garthinater]

I bet sakic and mcphee see huge rises in this years rankings.
Might have to give it to yzerman

 

[jetsforever]

Yzerman

 

[chewbaccaman]

Steve Yzerman pretty easily for me

 

[bleedblue1223]

Yzerman.

Last years list is absolutely hilarious. How was Chia at 13?

 

[Isaac Nootin]

How do you rank Poile or Yzerman over Rutherford?

Is the goal to build the best team on paper? Or win Stanley Cups?

 

[Murzu]

Next time for typing, it's Kekäläinen or Kekalainen.

Poile, then Yz.

 

[olli]

How do you rank Poile or Yzerman over Rutherford?

Is the goal to build the best team on paper? Or win Stanley Cups?

It’s up to the coach and the players to win the cup.

 

[thelittlecoon]

Obviously Benning has no chance here but he should still be in the poll.

 

[M2Beezy]

Obviously Benning has no chance here but he should still be in the poll.

Could only list 30 options for some reason, not sure why so had to exclude one option and figured it out at the bottom so figured the Winnipeg and Washington GMs would get more votes in the first round so decided to exclude Benning. He will be in the next one as therell be 30 choices, not 31

 

[Cotton]

Should of just put the obvious choice at #1, Marc Bergevin.

 

[Echo Roku]

How do you rank Poile or Yzerman over Rutherford?

Is the goal to build the best team on paper? Or win Stanley Cups?

Well, for GMs. One of those two are actually their job. Building the team.

 

[dirtydantheflyersman]

Probably Yzerman.

 

[Hischier and Hughes]

Teams cant be considered contenders because they dont win enough in the playoffs. - but GMs like Poile and Yzerman are heralded for never winning a cup

What kind of reasoning is this??

 

[major major]

I voted Cheveldayoff. Great drafting in Winnipeg, and most of the few trades he's made have been good. Unlike the situation for Stevie Y, Chevy doesn't benefit from having a destination city where lots of players want to go to. Somehow Chevy has built a winner in a place that players are most likely to refuse to go to. After that Yzerman. And Poile is great too, but I count the Seth Jones trade against him.

 

[LordNeverLose]

How do you rank Poile or Yzerman over Rutherford?

Is the goal to build the best team on paper? Or win Stanley Cups?

Teams cant be considered contenders because they dont win enough in the playoffs. - but GMs like Poile and Yzerman are heralded for never winning a cup

What kind of reasoning is this??

Yeah Brian Burke and Peter Chiarelli >>>>> Yzerman and Poile am I right guys?

 

[Hischier and Hughes]

Yeah Brian Burke and Peter Chiarelli >>>>> Yzerman and Poile am I right guys?

Do you normally make extreme comparatives?

 

[LordNeverLose]

Do you normally make extreme comparatives?

Not sure why you're calling it an extreme example. Both Burke and Chia have won Cups recently as GMs. Yzerman and Poile never have. By your reasoning, Burke and Chia are both better than Yzerman and Poile.

Oh wait ... are you saying there's other ways to evaluate GMs than just number of Cups won??? Gasp.

 

[BHD]

It’s up to the coach and the players to win the cup.

Who hires the coach and trades for the players?

 

[olli]

Who hires the coach and trades for the players?

The gm obviously. But once the playoffs start there is nothing a gm can do. At that point It is 100% on the coach’s and players to get the job done. Gms that have assembled great teams with great coaches don’t always win the cup. Sometimes even bad gms win cups.

 

[BHD]

The gm obviously. But once the playoffs start there is nothing a gm can do. At that point It is 100% on the coach’s and players to get the job done. Gms that have assembled great teams with great coaches don’t always win the cup. Sometimes even bad gms win cups.

Yes, but who brought them in the first place? You guessed it, the general manager. And yes, there are great teams that don't win Cups - hence why Poille and Yzerman are held in such high regard.

 

[Hischier and Hughes]

Not sure why you're calling it an extreme example. Both Burke and Chia have won Cups recently as GMs. Yzerman and Poile never have. By your reasoning, Burke and Chia are both better than Yzerman and Poile.

Oh wait ... are you saying there's other ways to evaluate GMs than just number of Cups won??? Gasp.

As if Chiarelli and Burke are even with the teams they won the Cups with still

Yes, it was a horrible and extreme comparative

 

[LordNeverLose]

As if Chiarelli and Burke are even with the teams they won the Cups with still

Yes, it was a horrible and extreme comparative

But why'd ANA and BOS fire them? They won Cups after all