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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
That right there was immediate grounds for dismissal and probably ultimately caused the owners too look at another direction. Let's not forget the centre position fiasco last season where he brought in the best centre outside the NHL that was a winger. The ridicule over a talent starved team using a 1st round pick on a high risk developmental prospect. For every good move made (and there were a few), there was a blunder and it was like they were always going to be one step forward, one step back and that's not good enough.
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They same will be said for every GM...Sutter made plenty of them, and I think Burke already made his first big one with not being able to ship out Cammalleri.
The whole Cervenka think was a low-risk experiment that was blown way out of proportion. It didn't end well...but hey, low-risk, who cares. I'm glad they tried something out of the box.
The O'Reilly thing was really dumb, and yeah, could've been a valid reason to can a GM. That and the team wanting to sign Brad Richards (probably under the win-now mantra) was the low points of his tenure for me.
But in the end, I think a lot of the blunders ar out-weighted by what he and his team have done in terms of loading up on prospects. At least on paper, that's the best set of prospects this team has had since the 80s. He needs to get credit for that.