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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
He was a new GM!! Of course he didn't inherit a young team with elite talent, high end prospects and oodles of cap space. Those GM's don't get replaced.
Which Canadian team GM inherited a better situation? I assume you're saying the majority of GM's inherited a better situation based on the bolded, but I'd say Dubas is the only one . And I'd argue that's an unusual situation.
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Dubas officially or unofficially? After Burke got the boot, Nonis camped out for a year and a bit and IIRC didn't make any major moves aside from off-loading big contracts/vets with no future in a rebuild. Lamoriello took over with Dubas as the AGM, with rumors early on that Dubas was being groomed all along. And if I remember it was a GM by committee with Lamoriello, Dubas and Mark Hunter making decisions as a committee. So the entire team from 2015 worked to draft and move out players who wouldn't be with them for the current push. Guys who were overrated weren't signed at their peak, or for potential - instead they were traded or let walk to other organizations in free agency. Dubas didn't inherit much - he was actually part of most of those moves leading up to him being GM.