FreshSeabass
Aho!
Im sorry if Velucci is hired as next GM, thats a signal to me that this organization isn't serious. Get someone from outside this cluster **** of an organization to come in and attempt to fix this mess.
If a guy is just chasing money, we have a chance to sign him, but I doubt he is a difference maker. Those guys tend to just put it on cruise control when things get bad. JT we know is not chasing money, he could get that in NY. He wants to win. We could offer him $2M more than the next team and he would turn that down if the next team gives him a better chance to win in his mind. That is the type of guy we need and the type of guy that will not even return our calls after this shit-show of a spring.Maybe, but that depends on the money they are offered, and to a lesser extent who the GM and coach is.
If a guy is just chasing money, we have a chance to sign him, but I doubt he is a difference maker. Those guys tend to just put it on cruise control when things get bad. JT we know is not chasing money, he could get that in NY. He wants to win. We could offer him $2M more than the next team and he would turn that down if the next team gives him a better chance to win in his mind. That is the type of guy we need and the type of guy that will not even return our calls after this ****-show of a spring.
It has nothing to do with Dundon being aggressive and impatient or having an idea what he wants. It has to do with the guy we want also wanting us, despite other jobs coming open and our job no longer being the "typical" GM job. If it's really more like a CEO, allowing managers to handle their areas, these AGMs may not be tripping over themselves to take our job.
Damn.
Really hope this isn't an indication that we're going to end up with some rather underwhelming hire.
I do believe that we’ve seen two people publicly say we are going cheap.
I was hearing on Vancouver radio that Laurence Gilman may be in contention for the GM position in Carolina.
I will tell you right now that if you guys get Gilman, your finances, cap management, and roster management will be air tight. If you aren't operating near the cap, it will feel like you are. Nobody is as good as Gilman with CBA-specific questions and nuance. The guy is brilliant. I should add that there was a story on the radio that Gilman had been working for free for a local Surrey, BC hockey team that was in dire straits. It was a touching story. The guy has great character, and the radio guys in Vancouver are having micro-orgasms whenever he is on the show. If you surround Gilman with good hockey people (scouting staff, etc), you will win the cup. The biggest mistake the Canucks made in the last fifteen years was letting him go.
I wish I was Mrs. GilmanThanks for stopping by, Mrs Gilman.
Seriously, tho ... thanks for this. I'm sure we have no chance at him, but I'm glad he'll make someone else happy somewhere. We're gonna end up with a GM from the ECHL or BCHL, no worries.
I was hearing on Vancouver radio that Laurence Gilman may be in contention for the GM position in Carolina.
I will tell you right now that if you guys get Gilman, your finances, cap management, and roster management will be air tight. If you aren't operating near the cap, it will feel like you are. Nobody is as good as Gilman with CBA-specific questions and nuance. The guy is brilliant. I should add that there was a story on the radio that Gilman had been working for free for a local Surrey, BC hockey team that was in dire straits. It was a touching story. The guy has great character, and the radio guys in Vancouver are having micro-orgasms whenever he is on the show. If you surround Gilman with good hockey people (scouting staff, etc), you will win the cup. The biggest mistake the Canucks made in the last fifteen years was letting him go.
With Francis moving upstairs and having a pulse on current GM duties, it could be a good fit.I like that he's a lawyer, and not a former player. That old-boy network really has me ticked off right about now. I'm a little worried because we're going to need somebody who isn't afraid of making a few trades, and I don't know if that's up his alley. This guy may have been born to be an Assistant GM. Put him with JR in a co-GM role, win multiple Cups.
The new GM won't report to Francis, and that's probably a good thing or else why remove him as GM? Gilman would have pretty much full authority unless he comes in as an assistant GM to the new GM.With Francis moving upstairs and having a pulse on current GM duties, it could be a good fit.
Guys cosplaying as hockey wifes is disturbingly becoming a thing here.I wish I was Mrs. Gilman
You mean bring down an outlet that used some of the worst yellow journalism the world has ever seen and had Thiel as a target at one point? If so, you keep doing you Peter.Pretty brash for O’Neill to @ Dundon if the info isn’t true. O’Neill is incredibly unlikeable so I doubt he cares, but picking a fight with a Billionaire is not the smartest move in today’s culture. Just look at what Peter Thiel did to Gawker through Hulk Hogan.
So I just watched Kypreos and Maclean talk about it. Kypreos says there’s a feeling “out there” that not only is this an unusual set up for a gm, but that it will also be a lower paying gm position. Also intimates that some of the names being thrown around may be just thrown around with no expectation of the best names taking the gig. Also says in today’s world just being a friend of the owner can be enough to get a gig.
He tends to spout off a lot of crap, so I don’t take any of it straight up. I do believe that we’ve seen two people publicly say we are going cheap. I don’t like that part if it’s true. TD spouts off a lot about all the cash he’s putting into the team for support roles and the like, when the number one thing we need money spent on is key positions like the gm and the players. This attitude would also support the concept of a “puppet”.
Could all be crap but they started by asking each other why Futa would actually pull out when all these guys are in the business to become gm’s and there are only 31 spots.
Just hire one of the ones everyone thinks is going to be a good gm. Don’t try to outthink this process.
It’s in my post up above. Kypreos said there’s a feeling in the community the canes are going cheap.We're talking about the Carolina Hurricanes here....that would never happen.
I've only seen the Jeff O'Neill tweet (who is best described as "clownish"). Was there another reference to "being cheap" with regard to the GM position? Or is it the speculation about what folks "think" the management structure implies?
Interesting...."the community"....one has to wonder if this is based on actual comments and information or if this is an example of what happens when you "diss an icon" in the eyes of the hockey media....an example of the infamous, "they said" or "people say"....or perhaps as a result of always assuming the Hurricanes will go cheap because Karmanos.It’s in my post up above. Kypreos said there’s a feeling in the community the canes are going cheap.