I think Dubas is a fine GM but not sure what he has done that would put him anywhere near the list of top GMs in the league. Perhaps I am missing good moves but what would people say are his best trades? His best FA signings? His best draft picks?
That TO team seems built around players that were high draft picks, and while it is easy to #### those picks up, I am not sure how likely it is that Calgary is going to build a team that way.
For his overall team building skills he never seemed able to add to Reilly on the backend to build a quality defense core, the supporting players after Nylander, Marner, Matthews and Tavares never seems to be good enough and the goaltending issue has been a bit of a disaster. Looking at his drafting outside of high picks I don't see any quality picks there at all.
I would be fine if he came in but he is far from a home run hire and would come in with a lot of questions as to how much of his reputations is based on quality or hype, I think it tends to lean more towards the hype.
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