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Originally Posted by Dagger
No thanks. Statistical evaluation is the way forward and having a traditionalist run the club(read his comments from last night) is absolutely not ok. Toronto does look much better this year, but I think that has more to do with Randy Carlyle.
He missed on Kessel, his Phaneuf acquisition was good asset value at the time but not now, he failed to find a goalie, and none of his draft picks have panned out(although Kadri has a chance and Reilly looks good).
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How can you put that much stock in Carlyle when he didn't put the team on the ice? Hockey isn't much of an X's and O's game. A coach can definitely screw up the team, but I don't put much stock in them being completely successful because of their coach.
Secondly, he didn't completely miss on Kessel. It was a good move at the time where most didn't see them doing that bad the following year, and it turned out to be a high pick going the other way. Arguably a bad deal, but not terrible considering Kessel is still a very good player. More of a deal that they probably wouldn't do if they could have told the future.
Phaneuf that got for a song. He may not really be worth the dollar value on the contract, but he made a deal for crazy cheap and then some. Drafting, I'll completely agree he and his staff were behind on, but if you actually go player by player on every move he made, he really got great value for almost every player he dealt away. While his attitude to the media and how he comes across may seem traditional, he's actually a very intelligent guy. These days, no teams are run the traditional way. Listen to some of his interviews: