Ha. You don't see a reason to fire Lou mid-season or any GM mid-season? If a GM is putting your franchise in a worse position with each passing move you should let him continue on in that post until end of season...As opposed to getting a jump on the hiring market and installing a new/better GM ASAP so he can be more prepared for the upcoming offseason/draft?
Perhaps you don't remember back to 2019 when Oilers GM Peter Chiarelli gave Mikko Koskinen a ludicrous contract extension putting the Oilers in a much worse goaltending and cap situation. A week later Chiarelli was fired, but every Oilers fan wishes he was fired before the Koskinen extension.
If a GM isn't doing the job you get them out ASAP so they can't do further damage and you can start taking steps towards fixing things.
Yup, but the ones that get it right are the ones winning Cups.
Do you remember when Holland signed Jack Campbell to a long term deal in 2022? Sure those fans are happy about that one…and the GM seems to be employed right now.
Do you remember the GM that let a sc winning coach leave, to put in place a career assistant as the coach? Oh, fires that guy, get another coach that ‘mutually separated’ and signed Tom Wilson to a Dilpietro contract? Oh, he seems employed too.
Hey, what about that guy that signed some goalie named Cal Peterson leaving them no cap space to improve their goaltending even after he was dumped on Philly? Still employed…
You fire a guy like Dorian asap because of his bonehead move and overall lack of improvement since he started.
No one is making a shakeup trade 15 games into the season. The Isles have little ‘assets’ to sell for the new GM to ‘put his/her mark on the team this season. He can (a) fire Lambert, (b) make a trade in the winter, or (c) let it ride for the year.
The Isles are 16th in the league. Look at the coaches of the teams above them, absent the Ducks and Wings (both will fade to lotto land), each team has veteran coaches.
Firing lambert most likely gets you a ‘retread’ vs some newbie that’s gonna suck as much as Lambert is currently doing. So, who are the names to replace Lambert?