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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
We are speaking a lot in this thread about broader organizational issues that plague bad teams, including the price paid for trying to accelerate the path to winning. Well, part of what breeds that is the historic time that a GM has been given to get there. This organization has a history of only giving a GM a short number of years to execute to the vision. So that means that GMs are only managing to that window. And that's not healthy.
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Poile is a good example. He would have been fired several times over by the fans of this board if he was the Flames GM.
I'd say it takes at least 5 years for an NHL GM to have enough of a body of work to judge him by. That's too short of a time-frame to complete a rebuild of an asset-starved franchise like the Flames, so you need other metrics besides "turned team into Stanley Cup contender."