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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Can someone list for me all the bad moves MacTavish has made as GM? I mean Nikita Nikitin is obvious, but other than that, I can't really fault much of it.
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MacTavish's errors have mainly been errors of omission. Nikitin contract is the obvious error of judgement but he had no back-up plan to an 18 y.o. at 2C and he rolled the dice on one of two career back-up goalies rising to the challange of being the starter. Combined that meant that the Oilers ended up thin at C, D, and G. In an alternate reality where Draisaitl was ready to be a 2C in the NHL, Nikitin was a legit top 4 guy, and Scrivens was another Bernier (legit starter trapped behind an entrenched starter in Quick) the Oilers probably do alright... but that's not the real world.
Basically it's less about what he did wrong and more about what he just didn't do.