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Originally Posted by Split98
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 |
Alright so Jay took over the team and his mandate was to go for it/win now. If he knew better and went along with it then he's not a good GM. If he didn't know better he's a terrible GM. Fact is despite the mandate he did a poor job and that is inevitably what lead to the rebuild. We got progressively worse every year he was here. No matter how you slice it he didn't do a good job. He didn't assess the team or proactively assess our situation. He ran the team into the ground and we had no other option.