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Originally Posted by dustygoon
Hmmm. I'm missing your point. Not every cup team has two automatic hall of famers/legends on the roster when the GM arrives. That poster was surprised at negative responses because he won two cups. I'm saying he arrived when the team already was set up to win. Ya he added Kessel and Trevor Daley etc. But hard to say Rutherford's moves were incremental vs what another GM would have done....WARGM is the metric!
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Yes he had a great foundation with Crosby, Malkin, Letang, and Fleury. The Penguins' amateur guys also drafted and developed well.
But overall he made a major turnaround in their roster from the 2013-14 team he inherited. And part of that can be as simple as calling guys up when they've earned it, even if they're undersized or not high draft picks.
Sheary-Crosby-
Hornqvist
Kunitz-Malkin-
Rust
Hagelin-Bonino-Kessel
Kuhnhackl-Cullen-Fehr
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Jake Guentzal in 2017
Dumoulin-Letang
Maatta-
Daley
Cole-Schultz
Murray
MAF
That was a deep, FAST roster that all fit within the salary cap. And Sullivan made them play a fast style, not unlike Boudreau. The least impressive guys there in terms of speed were Kunitz and Maatta. Meh.