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Originally Posted by Badgers Nose
Not sure what A-level talent would want this job. 2 years of a rebuild wasted, a boss who will give your performance review on live TV and who will passive aggressively interfere through the media. Yuck.
Niewy is too smart to take this job.
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Seems like you can say that about a lot of jobs though just change the person in charge.
Toronto has meddlesome owners that canned Burke and a large media base that think they all are smarter than you. Ottawa has Melnyk who is nuts. Edmonton has Lowe. Chicago has Bowman in the background. Philly has Snyder and Bobby Clarke. Phoenix is always unstable. Edmonton has Lowe. Montreal if you are not French you suck. Who knows what Wang will do in NYI. Dolan is a nutcase with the Rangers. Nashville, TB, Florida, Dallas etc. all have financial constraints.
For almost every position out there you can find issues that an A lister might come up with as why not to go.
With Burke there are likely some who would back away from the job with him there but others that like the fact that they can do the job without a lot of the distractions that come with being a GM because Burke will take some of those hits for you.
As mentioned there are 30 GM jobs out there and this is one that comes with a pretty blank slate in terms of roster commitments and with a blank check in terms of going to the cap. That is likely a fairly enticing situation to many potential GM's.