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Originally Posted by Bingo
Man I hate "smartest guy in the room"
He's paid to make decisions. Ideally he's collaborative. He works well with others.
But you don't hire GMs to poll other GMs and make sure his thinking is in line with others. If you don't like the guy, fire him by all means, but don't suggest a willingness to make one's own decisions is a character flaw.
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Okay not 'smartest guy in the room'. How about 'often fails to make the best decisions, given the options at his disposal'. If he was choosing GG or BP over all those other guys, which it sounds like, I'm sorry but that's just piss poor decision making, even without hindsight. We have a flawed, unsuccessful hockey ops team, just my opinion. And that falls on him.
Decided we don't need top 3 round draft picks
No good coaching hires
Abysmal in UFA
Two decent trades in 5 years
Talks a mean talk though
History will judge him as not a good GM imo. I doubt he gets another crack at it after mangling this rebuild so bad. Seriously, who goes and trades all their picks after a millisecond of rebuilding? And then hires a red haired rookie doofus to run the ship?