[Erick Estrada]

Most NHL GM's aren't very good at their jobs. If these guys were working for non-sports multimillion dollar corporations they would have been fired long ago. Every year we get to see NHL GM's trip over themselves to sign the next non-elite player like David Clarkson, Brooks Orpik, Loui Eriksson, Matt Moulson, David Backes, etc to a franchise crippling long term contract that will probably lead to buyout. Even Treliving who we consider a smart GM was not immune to the silliness as the Brouwer contract was bad the day it was signed and has turned out even worse than anticipated. They just can't help themselves as it seems like they fool themselves into thinking that average players on the other side of their prime years are the missing link for their franchise to fill a need. Unfortunately most of these deals looked bad on day one and the players have done nothing to change that. I get that most GM's aren't thinking five years down the road because if they don't win they won't be around by then but some of these players aren't that good in the first place so if anything these contracts accelerate the demise of the GM.