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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
He's been willing to move big names. Including deals that have allegedly fallen through. I don't see much evidence of what you describe.
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What difficult decisions has he made as GM? Trading Bennett? Even at that you can argue he waited too long. Didn’t move Giordano at the trade deadline in a season they were out of the playoffs. Let him go for nothing in the expansion draft. Waited too long with the Gaudreau situation. If he was hell bent on keeping the player he should have tried harder to lock him up prior to the 11th hour. Tkachuk will come down to the end.
I feel he’s similar to the Jets GM in a lot of ways. Build a solid roster over the years that has been wasted on mediocre coaching. One difference is that he never loses assets for nothing. He’s done a fantastic job of being proactive and recouping assets for players rather than let them walk in free agency. They always seem to have young players in the pipeline filling key roles because of the trade returns for assets. He would have never put his team in the situation the Flames find themselves in with Gaudreau, Tkachuk, Mangiapane.