Best and worst moves by your team

[weaponomega]

Coaching hiring: Best: Claude Julien
Worst: Steve Kasper or Dave Lewis - Both were a disaster and never again coached at the NHL level after being fired.

GM Hiring: Chiarelli - Built a cup team. Things did fall apart towards the end though
Worst: Mike O'Connell

Trade: Best: Cam Neely and a 1st for Barry Pederson
Worst: Seguin to Dallas - epic faii

1st round draft pick: Best: Ray Bourque
Worst: Zach Hamill, Joe Colbourne, Lars Jonsson, there are many to choose from

2nd round or later draft pick: Best: Patrice Bergeron

Free agent signing: Best: Zdeno Chara
Worst: Alexei Zhamnov

Not re-signing a player: No one I can think of. I think the B's have done a good job of recognizing when to let a player walk.

 

[District 5]

Minnesota Wild

Best:
Coach: Lemaire (boudreau will overtake him eventually)
GM: Fletcher
Trade: Pavol Demitra for a 1st (Trevor Lewis) and Pat Osullivan
1st: Marion Gaborik
2nd or later: Haula (7th round)
FA: Suter and Parise
Jersey: Green
Resign: Koivu

Worst:
Coach: Todd Richards
GM: Doug Risbrough
Trade: Cam Barker for Nick Leddy
1st: A.J. Thelen
2nd: A lot of stinkers, Brett Bulmer comes to mind
FA: Petr Sykora
Jersey: Christmas red
Resign: Not resigning Gaborik, resigning Martin Skoula

 

[HarrisonFord]

Coaching hiring, best: Mike Babcock, Pat Burns, Pat Quinn
Coaching hiring, worst: Randy Carlyle, Mike Murphy

GM hiring, best: Lou Lamoriello
GM hiring, worst: Where to begin....

Trade, best: JVR for Schenn is up there
Trade, worst: Rask for Raycroft

1st round draft pick, best: Auston Matthews, Mitch Marner, Bill Nylander
1st round draft pick, worst: Tyler Biggs

2nd round or later draft pick, best: Tomas Kaberle in the 8th round
2nd round or later draft pick, worst: Brad Ross, with Toffoli still on the board

Free agent signing, best: I honestly have no idea
Free agent signing, worst: David ****ing Clarkson

Not re-signing a player, best: Bolland
Not re-signing a player, worst: Grabner, apparently

 

[Jumptheshark]

Coaching hiring:
GM hiring: Sather
Trade: Carson and McClulland for Graves, Klima, Murphy and Sharples(5th cup followed)
1st round draft pick: Paul Coffey-Now McDavid shortly
2nd round or later draft pick: Messier-3rd round-kurri and anderso 4th rounders taken 69th


worst gm Lowe/Mact
Worst coach-Eakins
Worst trade-Recent Petry before that take your pick of hall of famers given away
Worst first--Yak
Worst second--there are a lot of 2nd rounders the team did the hard sell for and the went no where

 

[Montgomery81]

since coming to Dallas
Best/Worst

Coaching hiring: Ken Hitchcock/Marc Crawford
GM hiring: Jim Nill / Brett Hull-Les Jackson Duo
Trade: Tyler Seguin / Neal & Niskanen for Goligoski
1st round draft pick: Brendan Morrow / Scott Glennie
2nd round or later draft pick: Jamie Benn / Janos Vas
Free agent signing: Brett Hull / Sean Avery
Hockey jersey: Current Home / Mooterus
Not re-signing a player: Brad Richards / Brad Richards

+1, although, could you make the argument that Iginla was the best first round pick by Dallas, despite the fact that he never played a game for the club? Does Modano count as it's the same franchise?

 

[Frk It]

Coaching hiring
Best: Babcock
Worst: Wayne Maxner? (Kinda guessing on this, wasn't alive for Dead Wings era)

GM hiring
Best: Ken Holland
Worst: Ned Harkness or Jimmy Skinner (Kinda guessing on this, wasn't alive for Dead Wings era)

Trade
Best: Shanahan for Primeau and Coffey (HM to getting Kris Draper for $1... talk about ROI, lol)
Worst: Oates to St Louis

1st round draft pick
Best: Yzerman
Worst: McCollum

2nd round or later draft pick
Best: Lidstrom
Worst: Hard to say

Free agent signing
Best: Hull
Worst: Weiss

Hockey jersey
Pretty much always been the same

Not re-signing a player
We still talk about Franzen over Hossa to this day... so there's that

 

[Givememoneyback]

Coaching hiring, best: Peter Deboer, Gerrard Gallant
Coaching hiring, worst: Rick Dudley (self-appointed)

GM hiring, best: Dale Tallon
GM hiring, worst: Rick Dudley

Trade, best: Parrish & Kvasha for Luongo & Jokinen (Thanks Milbury!)
Trade, worst: Luongo, Krajicek, & a 6th for Bertuzzi, Allen, & Auld

1st round draft pick, best: Sasha Barkov
1st round draft pick, worst: Sticking with lottery picks, any one of: Keaton Ellerby, Rusty Olesz, Petr Taticek, or Denis Shvidki
2nd round or later draft pick, best: Vinnie Trocheck (HM: Kristian Huselius, David Booth, &, for making bad hockey watchable, Peter Worrell)
2nd round or later draft pick, worst: Hard to pick, but of those who made the show, ninth round pick, Tanner Glass

Free agent signing, best: Tomas Fleischmann or Keith Yandle
Free agent signing, worst: Dave Bolland

Not re-signing a player, best: Stephen Weiss
Not re-signing a player, worst: Drawing a blank

 

[Morgs]

Coaching hiring, best: Mike Babcock, Pat Burns, Pat Quinn
Coaching hiring, worst: Randy Carlyle, Mike Murphy

GM hiring, best: Lou Lamoriello
GM hiring, worst: Where to begin....

Trade, best: JVR for Schenn is up there
Trade, worst: Rask for Raycroft

1st round draft pick, best: Auston Matthews, Mitch Marner, Bill Nylander
1st round draft pick, worst: Tyler Biggs

2nd round or later draft pick, best: Tomas Kaberle in the 8th round
2nd round or later draft pick, worst: Brad Ross, with Toffoli still on the board

Free agent signing, best: I honestly have no idea
Free agent signing, worst: David ****ing Clarkson

Not re-signing a player, best: Bolland
Not re-signing a player, worst: Grabner, apparently

HM for best trade:
Gardiner + Lupul for Beauchemin
Gilmour trade
Sundin trade

HM for worst trade:

Steen + Colaiacavo for Stempniak
Stralman + **** for Primeau
Possibly the Niedermayer trade.