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Originally Posted by Da_Chief
How are some still defending the GM?
He's had no playoff success, multiple coaching hires and fires, multiple misses at acquiring a goalie, no #1 center, wasted Gio's best years and the currently constructed the team that is out of the playoffs and likely gets worked if they sneak in.
All that with being a cap team.
Who cares what pick he got for trading Hudler or Glencross etc years ago...Commending him for how he handled the Peters situation? He hired the guy without doing a proper check. Its not like he was left all alone to deal with this, the Flames PR, president, owner, NHL etc were all involved. He was the speaker of what he was being told to say.
He's had 2/3 of a decade to fix this thing and looks like a pile of crap. Theres no small victories, the point is to win and he hasn't done enough of it and the future doesnt seem very bright either.
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I don't think many are defending him now. Most of us realize he hasn't got the job done. He's 7 years in so it's not like he hasn't had ample time to build the team he inherited into a contender. The organization is in worse shape today than when he inherited it and to me that signifies a GM that failed. He's simply failed to deal with the Monahan/Gaudreau combination and will probably be in a position of weakness with Gaudreau selling low and is boxed in a corner with Tkachuk who's only a guaranteed asset for two more seasons before free agency. With no elite players in the pipeline this roster is in a downward trajectory and we all know how ownership hates rebuilds so it's kind of a mess where he's going to have to sell the owners that he can retool and keep the team competitive which we all knows leads to perpetual mediocrity. We are heading into that Flames 2009-2014 era of being just good enough to finish 9/10th in the conference.