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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. He paid Boyd Gordon too much but there was competition that offseason for his services. Andrew Ference looked like a pretty good move when it was made. I guess you could say they messed up by alienating Jeff Petry.
I mean have you watched Luca Sbisa in this series? The other guys' GM just gave him a 10 million dollar contract. I can't think of anything MacTavish has done that's come close.
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Starting out your employment saying you're an impatient man and that there will be bold moves was interesting. It's even more interesting when you say those things then make no bold moves and show you have the patience of Job.
A General Manager is greatly defined by his coach. Craig MacTavish let Ralph Krueger go and hired Dallas Eakins. The former had the best season for the Oilers team in 9 years, the latter was one of the most bumbling coaches that I can ever remember.
Not being able to make bold moves he continued to make bold statements. X player will win this award, Justin Schultz will be a Norris guy etc etc.
Edmonton desperately needed goaltending. They jettisoned Devan Dubnyk in favour of Ben Schrivens and Viktor Fasth. The Oilers now have one of the worst goalie duos in the NHL while Dubnyk had a Vezina level year.
MacTavish has had two years to make any sort of improvements and we can safely say he has improved in none. It's suggested he's handcuffed because he has to keep the "Young Turks" but then maybe he should have kept the platitudes wedged up his bottom instead of making bold claims every broken glasses, sweaty gross press conference.
He's not very good.