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Originally Posted by TX_Flame
I guess they hope the new GM has a clue about how to build a champion (like he did in Boston) and the new coach will be able to get better performance out of the available talent, like Hartley did for us.
Personally, Chia kind of scares me. For instance, we all know that Hall is a talented but 1 dimensional scoring machine who doesn't play in his own zone or make his teammates a whole lot better. In Boston, Chia was able to turn a guy like that into Tyler Seguin and Dougie. I'm not so impressed with McLellan. After all, in SJ he had a very good, balanced team, but he could never get them to play up to their talent level in the playoffs.
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A bit of revisionist history there.
Chiarelli was having trouble signing Kessel.
Burke was interested and, instead of offer-sheeting him, basically offered Chiarelli the same compensation by way of trade.
Chiarelli had little choice (much like the Hamilton deal)
What saved Chiarelli's butt was that Toronto subsequently fell apart and those picks became a 2nd and a 9th (unexpected at the time of the trade).
And even with the 9th, Boston was very fortunate that Hamilton fell that far.
Chiarelli deserves no credit whatsoever for that trade, IMO.