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Originally Posted by kyuss275
Go to another thread where i have listed the many transactions that have not worked. Trust me when i say at best it ends up being 50-50 for good vs bad. That is not a good ratio for a GM. Don't get me wrong i dont expect him to be 100%.
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A lot of the time though, the transactions that were not optimal were ones where he kept players instead of letting them go and getting new people. That also has to do with not going into a rebuild until this season. He was trying to maintain the status quo as much as possible to be a playoff team with a team that was no where near good enough. That's where most of the mistakes that he's made as a GM have come from.
Since trying to add more youth and into the rebuild, he's pretty much hit on every transaction.
I have been one that has been extremely critical of moves that have been made over the years and have been hoping they'd rebuild for years (Basically since that 6-5 game against Chicago and follow up loss against Columbus back in 2009), but since going into the rebuild, he's been making a lot of good moves.
I just don't like when people nitpick and judge him based off a completely separate modus operandi, when he's now working off a different playbook entirely. He was bad at trying to make a playoff team from parts that were not good enough to get there on their own in the first place. Now that we are in a rebuild, you should look at moves that were made to further that objective. They have been mostly good with only the Tanguay trade being possibly questionable (although it was necessary for him to move)
If he starts making a series of stupid moves like getting 3 or 4 veteran forwards to go on the top lines, not allowing Sven, Backlund and #6 the opportunity to get proper ice time etc. then sure, I'll be just as frustrated, but he hasn't done things like that thus far. He seems to be facilitating the rebuild properly thus far even though it's only been 3 months.