I like a lot of these changes: added two former GMs. Campbell was part of the player development staff of Columbus, one of the best in the league.
Ah, I disagree: I think Dudley is a great profession scout with a lot of GM experience, which should help us given that Zito is not experienced as a full time GM.Dudley is the only confusing one, otherwise looks to be solid hires.
Ah, I disagree: I think Dudley is a great profession scout with a lot of GM experience, which should help us given that Zito is not experienced as a full time GM.
He was great for Atlanta, so I'm biasedimo Dudley has been total dud his entire exec career but we'll see.
Look at the panthers dragging all you suckers back in lol.
Dudley is the only confusing one, otherwise looks to be solid hires.
Ah, I disagree: I think Dudley is a great profession scout with a lot of GM experience, which should help us given that Zito is not experienced as a full time GM.
"Senior advisor to the GM" doesn't exactly sound like scouting though.Disagree as well. Let him go scout, he knows what he’s doing.
Yep. Here is the list of Hockey Ops from least year:Great moves, finally some real hockey ops people in the front office.
Assistant to the General Manager: Blake Geoffrion
LOVE the moves? Nope - acceptable though.Look at the panthers dragging all you suckers back in lol. Love the moves. Maybe viola and co aren’t complete morons. At least everyone is on the same page now in the organization.
Yesh I do love these moves. They took out the placement fillers and added them with real knowledgeable people. Viola is giving us the tools to win. He’s spending money getting these guys. Yes he’s stubborn and thinks he’s smarter than he is but he’s definitely giving us a shot.LOVE the moves? Nope - acceptable though.
Maybe Viola etc AREN’T morons? Nope - they still are.
Same page? Nope - I think they’ll still suck and I won’t feel bad for them.
Any NEW loyalty, they’ll have to earn it.
Yep: my first year as a Panthers fan was Tallon’s second: I was a senior in high school. I’ve went to university; worked my first job and am now in the dissertation phase of my PhD...I like the moves, I hope he continues to clean house. I know it’s hard to be excited or have hope as a panthers fan but the changes are good to see.
tallon was here for a freaking decade. 10yrs. To put that into perspective: if you were a child in kindergarten when they hired Tallon, that person would now be pretty much half way through high school and driving by the time we moved on from him. For a lot of people that’ll be the entire history of knowing this team. And is still over a third of the franchises existence.
seeing a change, finally after all this time, is good to see.
"Senior advisor to the GM" doesn't exactly sound like scouting though.
And his GM/assistant GM track record really isn't all that great.
Good luck with thatYep: my first year as a Panthers fan was Tallon’s second: I was a senior in high school. I’ve went to university; worked my first job and am now in the dissertation phase of my PhD...
He was great for Atlanta, so I'm biased
Isn't this bad? Sounds like your suggesting Joyce still has some say for some reasonSeems to me like you said it yourself right there.
Maybe I’m taking the title too literally, but he’s not filling the role of “Assistant GM”, his title is specifically *advisor* to the GM.
AKA he’s probably involved in most discussions but he probably runs off and does scouting, etc and gives his advice and helps out where necessary.
Look at what Pronger was doing the last few years as an advisor to the GM. I think he was typically at home (St. Louis?) doing pro scouting most of the time.
I think it’s intentional that Joyce is still assistant GM whereas Fenton and Dudley were given advisor roles. To me there seems to be a distinct difference.