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Originally Posted by oldschoolcalgary
exactly
its all about risk aversion...going out and hiring a complete unknown can go very badly for you if things go sideways - "you hired an unproven guy, of course this was going to happen"
At least with a retread, like the previous poster mentioned, you can point to the past record and say, 'well, look he failed, but i couldn't have known that based on past successes'
A lot of posters weren't sold on Yzerman as a GM when he went to TB: too green, too inexperienced, DRW were successful due to Holland and Nill, etc, but Tampa could hire him because he faced zero scrutiny in that market.
So they were able to hire a bright young GM instead of some washed up GM forced into retirement by the team he spent 30+ years with
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And how did that work out for Tampa? How did it work out for the Flames hiring a young unproven GM? It seems to me the risk is well worth the reward and to me this is a low ceiling hire. At best they will get what the Wings have got over the past decade which is mediocrity which is an improvement for the Oilers BTW. At worst it's just a continuation of the same. I think Holland isn't going to make a lot of the bad trades Chiarelli did but it's not like the Wings have been unearthing great talent via the draft so the Oilers are going to need some bounces and luck go their way and really they have had plenty of that over the last 15 years and have squandered it.