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Originally Posted by Hackey
He was forced to start the rebuild when he should have started it long before. So yes he did start it but by no means does he deserve any type of praise. That is what I am referring to. I'm not going to give a guy credit for screwing up and defaulting into a situation. That's called a bad GM not a good one.
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It's just perspective really, so I guess it's wrong for me to say you're wrong... but I don't share your perspective in how Jay came to the rebuild.
What New Era pointed out is how I see Jay's situation as well. Ownership (most owners in the NHL) don't want to own a rebuilding team. They will encourage their GM to do absolutely everything to make the team relevant and I would love to see the GM that could have taken Calgary's situation and turned them into a winner without breaking apart the assets we had.
Jay took the GM role on May 16th in 2011 and his famous quote to Duthie in
September 2011 would demonstrate that his task from ownership was 'make the playoffs'. Jarome was traded March 23rd in 2013 2 1/4 years after he became the GM. Giving the possibility that the minute Jay dropped that quote ownership changed their mind and greenlighted his rebuild, that's still what... 1 3/4 years to rebuild? A) They didn't, it would have come much much later and B) I don't think that's an unreasonable timeframe to start a rebuild even if they did