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Originally Posted by agulati
Dallas is a team that was built with scoring in mind. Their defense has been weak for years. Jim Nill was considered the next big in the league, after being under Holland's helm for all those years, but he hasn't done much to fix up the goaltending or defense.
They have had their injuries though this year, which has not helped them much. They do have the biggest chance of a rebound for next year, when considering all the bottom teams this year, but not with the defense or goaltending they possess currently.
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I said it in the Dallas game thread the other day but Jim Nill got severely overrated by being in the Detroit organization. It's not that he wasn't a great hockey manager at various levels, or that he didn't contribute to Detroit's success.
It was the fact that as soon as his name came up as a potential GM, the media and fans didn't treat him like a successful, middle manager from a great organization, looking for a HUGE promotion. Which is a great potential hire, btw.
Instead he was treated as if he was a top tier, free agent, acclaimed GM. So everyone assumed he was going to come in and be a top level GM and it turns out he's struggling mightily with going from an organizational manager to a full GM.