Joe Sakic - Redeemed as an NHL GM?

[Voight]

I'd say he's up there with Chayka as one of the best GMs in the league.

 

[koyvoo]

Sakic absolutely smoked Dufas in the Kadri-Barrie/Kerfoot deal.

 

[GOilers88]

I realise this is an old thread that was bumped but the original premise was silly.

He was never a bad GM. Folks around here just have no clue what it's like to run a sports franchise. Lose some games one month and they raise pitchforks cause the GM is ruining the team. Win some games the next month and it's sunshine and roses cause the GM has built a solid team. Wind up on the bad side of one deal and it was a terrible trade by a GM who is clueless. Wind up on the good side of a deal and it was a smart, savvy GM "fleecing" another. Don't trade a guy for peanuts just to get him out and the GM is stupid for holding on to a player with negative value. Find the right home for a guy after wading cautiously through the waters for a few months and suddenly the same GM is once again brilliant.

This place is honestly a cesspool of knee jerk reactions and extreme hyperbole that swings to the far end of the spectrum and back goal by goal.