Speculation: If Bowman is Fired, who replaces him?

[Kaners Bald Spot]

Thread title speaks for itself. Discuss.
My choice is Ron Hextall.

EDIT: I somehow missed that Hextall took over for Rutherford.
I don't have a preference then.

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[Crow]

Thread title speaks for itself. Discuss.
My choice is Ron Hextall.

Isn’t he still in Pittsburgh?

 

[Toews2Bickell]

Thread title speaks for itself. Discuss.
My choice is Ron Hextall.

glad to see you started this thread, curious who would be on people top 3 candidates...hextall is an interesting one, especially given that he did a decent job in philly with draft picks...ownership just wasn't patient enough with him, Jeff Gorton is similar story to Hextall...another situation that could play out is danny wirtz hires a team president to replace stan who then will go out and hire a gm...similar to the structure vegas has with mcphee and mccrimmon

 

[Toews2Bickell]

Isn’t he still in Pittsburgh?

believe so, now that you mention it, think he replaced rutherford and brian burke joined him as well

 

[Kaners Bald Spot]

Isn’t he still in Pittsburgh?

Did he take over for Rutherford? If so, how did I miss that?

EDIT: Yep, he took over for Rutherford. My bad, I thought he was still out there.

 

[Crow]

Did he take over for Rutherford? If so, how did I miss that?

He did I looked it up. I must have read it here at some point. I did think he was underrated with philly. Seemed like he was moving the franchise toward something good a couple years ago and look at them now.

 

[Kaners Bald Spot]

He did I looked it up. I must have read it here at some point. I did think he was underrated with philly. Seemed like he was moving the franchise toward something good a couple years ago and look at them now.

Yeah I really liked what he was doing with the Flyers, that's why he was high on my list when I thought he was still available.

 

[Toews2Bickell]

Hawks bringing Tallon back would be some shit...still a lot of fans that thought they did him wrong so maybe it would score some pr points with the casual fan, Hossa assistant gm

 

[ColbyChaos]

Thread title speaks for itself. Discuss.
My choice is Ron Hextall.

He is already a GM in Pit.

Gorton is likely the best bet. He did great in creating a contender in Boston in a single year too. He added Rask, Lucic, Kessel, Chara, and Marchand in one offseason basically setting them up to contend with those guys for the rest of the 2010s. Hes done a great job in NY as well so far building up a great stockpile of talent when everyone thought theyd be in the dumpster considering they had no prospect pool and were trending down. Even without Laf and Kakko they built a really good young core

 

[Kaners Bald Spot]

He is already a GM in Pit.

Gorton is likely the best bet. He did great in creating a contender in Boston in a single year too. He added Rask, Lucic, Kessel, Chara, and Marchand in one offseason basically setting them up to contend with those guys for the rest of the 2010s. Hes done a great job in NY as well so far building up a great stockpile of talent when everyone thought theyd be in the dumpster considering they had no prospect pool and were trending down. Even without Laf and Kakko they built a really good young core

Yeah I missed that he got hired by the Pens.

Gorton would be a good call, he did a nice job with the Rangers.

 

[ColbyChaos]

Hawks bringing Tallon back would be some shit...still a lot of fans that thought they did him wrong so maybe it would score some pr points with the casual fan, Hossa assistant gm

What Tallon did with Vegas alone should already make people weary of bringing him back

 

[Kaners Bald Spot]

What Tallon did with Vegas alone should already make people weary of bringing him back

It's also not a coincidence that the Panthers didn't take off until he got fired.

Go look at Tallon's drafting with the Hawks. Outside of Kane, Toews, Bolland and Hjalmarsson it was pretty abysmal. Bowman did a much better job with worse picks.

 

[Northernhawk]

Doug Wilson?

 

[Toews2Bickell]

What Tallon did with Vegas alone should already make people weary of bringing him back

def don't want him back, just think it would be ironic if mcdonough and stan are both removed from org and dale comes back...with only a few months into the season it would be hard to do a full search process so they would probably promote someone to interim gm and fill the position(s) at a later date

 

[Toews2Bickell]

Doug Wilson?

this i could get behind, is sj even considering moving on from him

 

[goldenbladz1]

Davidson is available I believe

 

[Toews2Bickell]

Davidson is available I believe

he went back to work with jarmo in cbj

 

[goldenbladz1]

he went back to work with jarmo in cbj

Ok thanks

 

[BK]

Tallon…no thank you.

I am going to look at who is available before picking my choice.

Edit: Jeff Gorton with Hossa.

 

[UncleElroy]

Chelios

 

[ColbyChaos]

Chelios

Hes gonna be broadcasting...

 

[Toews2Bickell]

Chelios

always thought it was a possibility he ended up in management but with him going to espn can't imagine its anytime soon if ever...Hossa as an adviser with intention to potentially move into executive role in the future would be interesting

 

[Drumman44]

I love Hossa (see Avatar and title) but what makes everyone think he is ready to take on an assistant GM job without any other management experience?

 

[Mrfenn92]

 

[ColbyChaos]

Forget my previous post I know my answer now.