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Originally Posted by ricardodw
Dale Tallon gets credit for building the Hawks to a SC champ.
The Hawks moved from 5th to 1st and picked Patrick Kane.
Tallon is still getting credit and paid as a guru GM based on the lottery results
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No he isn’t.
He’s getting credit for assembling a team by taking also-rans from good teams (Sharp, Ladd), making shrewd draft picks (Keith, Toews, Seabrook, Byfuglien, Hjalmarsson, Bickell, Crawford, Wisniewski), signing some great players (Hossa, Kopecky), and hiring a great coach (Quenneville).
It’s not because he was there that the Hawks won the lottery. What, are you going to suggest that he intentionally tanked certain games to ensure the Hawks finished 5th-last?