Hot take: GM' s, like most goalies, have become indistinguishable in that they have some good years and some bad years and very few can be counted on for any kind of consistency. Just a few years ago a GM like Poile was considered great and Bergevin was considered dumb, look how that has flipped. Rutherford won two cups and now he is gone. Armstrong won the Cup just two years ago in STL and then fumbled the Pieterangelo situation so badly and now the team might miss the playoffs. The only route to some success seems to be get elite talent in the draft and then hope your gm has a good year somewhere down the line.
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