Henkka
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Mike Ilitch passed away on February 10 th 2017.
Ken Holland was a loyal GM for his owner. Holland completed his owner's vision for 20 years. It was "never surrender"-mentality, always fight for a win and build for winning.
Actions after Mike Ilitch died on 10th February 2017:
- Sold Tomas Jurco 2 weeks after for a 3rd pick (24th February 2017)
- Sold Brendan Smith 4 days later for 2nd+3rd (28th February)
- Sold Tomas Vanek for 3rd + Dylan McIrath (1st March 2017)
- Sold Steve Ott for 6th pick (1st March 2017)
- Sold Tom McCollum in the summer for conditional 7th (July 2017)
- Sold Ryan Sproul for Matt Puempel (October 2017)
- Sold Riley Sheahan +pick for Scott Wilson + pick (October 2017)
- Sold Scott Wilson 6 weeks later for a pick. (December 2017)
- Sold Petr Mrazek for 3rd+4th (February 2018)
- Sold Tomas Tatar for 1st+2nd+3rd (February 2018)
- Sold Robbie Russo for conditional 7th (June 2018)
- Re-signed Mike Green as UFA
- Signed Tomas Vanek as UFA
- Acquired Jacob de la Rose from waivers for free (October 2018)
This is kind of 100% perfect asset management, team future in sight. Free players in, and players who go out go only for futures (pick) or meaningless AHL level trades for AHL help.
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Last 4-season action when Mike Ilitch was still alive:
- Sold retiring Pavel Datsyuk's caphit + #18 overall to Arizona for LTIRretiring Joe Vitale + #20 overall (Dennis Cholowski) + #58 overall (Filip Hronek). (June 2016)
- Acquired Dylan Sadowy for 3rd (May 2016)
- Sold Jakub Kindl for 6th (Februay 2016)
- Acquired Marek Zidlicky for 3rd (March 2015)
- Acquired Eric Cole + 3rd for Mattias Janmark + Mattias Bäckman + 2nd (March 2015)
- Acquired David Legwand for Calle Järnkrok + Patrick Eaves + 3rd (March 2014)
- Sold Kent Huskins for conditional 7th (March 2013, conditions were never met)
- Sold Brad Stuart's rights for conditional 7th (Alexander Kadeykin) + Andrew Murray. (June 2012)
- Acquired Mike Commodore for conditional 7th (February 2012, conditions never met)
- Acquired Kyle Quincey for 1st + Sebastian Piche (February 2012)
So, when Mike Ilitch was alive and Ken Holland was this "GM who doesn't care about future and throws picks away for useless veterans" he did:
Trade away:
2012 1st (Quincey-Downie)
2016 1st (Datsyuk-Vitale)
2015 2nd (Cole)
2015 3rd (Legwand)
2016 3rd (Zidlicky)
2017 3rd (Sadowy)
Traded in:
2016 1st (Datsyuk-Vitale)
2016 2nd (Datsyuk-Vitale)
2015 3rd (Cole)
2016 6th (Kindl)
2014 7th (Stuart)
So when Holland was a "buyer", he almost got in same amount of picks as he threw out. Lost in overall value because of higher picks, but all in all, 5 lower picks in and 6 higher picks out during 4 seasons.
After Mike Ilitch passed away, the pick-trades look like this:
Traded away:
5th 2018 (Sheahan-Wilson)
Traded in:
1st 2018 (Tatar)
2nd 2018 (Smith)
2nd 2019 (Tatar)
3rd 2017 (Jurco)
3rd 2017 (Vanek)
3rd 2017 (Smith)
3rd 2018 (Sheahan-Wilson)
3rd 2019 (Mrazek)
3rd 2021 (Tatar)
4th 2018 (Mrazek)
5th 2019 (Wilson)
6th 2018 (Ott)
As a rebuilder, Holland has traded 1 pick out and 12 picks in. This has happened only in 2 years.
He has more than double-fixed the hole, after he got a different signal from Chris Ilitch for team-building.
And we know there's more to come. It will be fun to look that record afterwards.
Ken Holland was a loyal GM for his owner. Holland completed his owner's vision for 20 years. It was "never surrender"-mentality, always fight for a win and build for winning.
Actions after Mike Ilitch died on 10th February 2017:
- Sold Tomas Jurco 2 weeks after for a 3rd pick (24th February 2017)
- Sold Brendan Smith 4 days later for 2nd+3rd (28th February)
- Sold Tomas Vanek for 3rd + Dylan McIrath (1st March 2017)
- Sold Steve Ott for 6th pick (1st March 2017)
- Sold Tom McCollum in the summer for conditional 7th (July 2017)
- Sold Ryan Sproul for Matt Puempel (October 2017)
- Sold Riley Sheahan +pick for Scott Wilson + pick (October 2017)
- Sold Scott Wilson 6 weeks later for a pick. (December 2017)
- Sold Petr Mrazek for 3rd+4th (February 2018)
- Sold Tomas Tatar for 1st+2nd+3rd (February 2018)
- Sold Robbie Russo for conditional 7th (June 2018)
- Re-signed Mike Green as UFA
- Signed Tomas Vanek as UFA
- Acquired Jacob de la Rose from waivers for free (October 2018)
This is kind of 100% perfect asset management, team future in sight. Free players in, and players who go out go only for futures (pick) or meaningless AHL level trades for AHL help.
***
Last 4-season action when Mike Ilitch was still alive:
- Sold retiring Pavel Datsyuk's caphit + #18 overall to Arizona for LTIRretiring Joe Vitale + #20 overall (Dennis Cholowski) + #58 overall (Filip Hronek). (June 2016)
- Acquired Dylan Sadowy for 3rd (May 2016)
- Sold Jakub Kindl for 6th (Februay 2016)
- Acquired Marek Zidlicky for 3rd (March 2015)
- Acquired Eric Cole + 3rd for Mattias Janmark + Mattias Bäckman + 2nd (March 2015)
- Acquired David Legwand for Calle Järnkrok + Patrick Eaves + 3rd (March 2014)
- Sold Kent Huskins for conditional 7th (March 2013, conditions were never met)
- Sold Brad Stuart's rights for conditional 7th (Alexander Kadeykin) + Andrew Murray. (June 2012)
- Acquired Mike Commodore for conditional 7th (February 2012, conditions never met)
- Acquired Kyle Quincey for 1st + Sebastian Piche (February 2012)
So, when Mike Ilitch was alive and Ken Holland was this "GM who doesn't care about future and throws picks away for useless veterans" he did:
Trade away:
2012 1st (Quincey-Downie)
2016 1st (Datsyuk-Vitale)
2015 2nd (Cole)
2015 3rd (Legwand)
2016 3rd (Zidlicky)
2017 3rd (Sadowy)
Traded in:
2016 1st (Datsyuk-Vitale)
2016 2nd (Datsyuk-Vitale)
2015 3rd (Cole)
2016 6th (Kindl)
2014 7th (Stuart)
So when Holland was a "buyer", he almost got in same amount of picks as he threw out. Lost in overall value because of higher picks, but all in all, 5 lower picks in and 6 higher picks out during 4 seasons.
After Mike Ilitch passed away, the pick-trades look like this:
Traded away:
5th 2018 (Sheahan-Wilson)
Traded in:
1st 2018 (Tatar)
2nd 2018 (Smith)
2nd 2019 (Tatar)
3rd 2017 (Jurco)
3rd 2017 (Vanek)
3rd 2017 (Smith)
3rd 2018 (Sheahan-Wilson)
3rd 2019 (Mrazek)
3rd 2021 (Tatar)
4th 2018 (Mrazek)
5th 2019 (Wilson)
6th 2018 (Ott)
As a rebuilder, Holland has traded 1 pick out and 12 picks in. This has happened only in 2 years.
He has more than double-fixed the hole, after he got a different signal from Chris Ilitch for team-building.
And we know there's more to come. It will be fun to look that record afterwards.
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