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Originally Posted by Textcritic
Because he was a horrible GM; an unwitting scapegoat for what looked like a pretty blatant fix. In actual fact, I think that the timing of the personnel changes that coincided with the immediate turnaround actually illustrates this. The team got the player they wanted, and now is the time to start building towards a championship with all the right pieces in place.
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Yep. I believe a lot of teams aren't happy seeing the Avalanche pick 1st overall and a season later all of a sudden being 5th in the Western Conference and all of a sudden a very good team despite being the exact same team with ROR from the start and MacKinnon being the only change on the roster. I'm not a big conspiracy guy but what happened last season IMO is exactly what it looks like and I believe other teams are not happy and while the Oilers are probably a team that gets named in this it's the Avalanche that are probably the main reason this is picking up steam.
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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
You keep claiming that, but the executives who made those decisions basically lost their jobs. If picking first overall was part of a master plan, why was Sherman shuffled aside, rather than rewarded?
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Sherman was rewarded as he still gets to keep his job (in name only) despite doing as poor a job as any GM not named Kevin Lowe. How do you explain Sherman keeping his title while having his duties minimized to the point he's not even doing the duties of a typical assistant GM? To me that screams of wink-wink you steer the ship into the ground for us and we will keep you on without the indignity of getting fired even though you will only be doing contract negotiations from now on but you still keep an NHL job and title.