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Originally Posted by Cali Panthers Fan
Uh yeah...it's time.
He was an emergency re-hire because the two young stats-based guys they hired made some of the stupidest moves in franchise history.
Dale said "hold my beer".
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Those guys made one really bad move (firing Gallant), but they actually made some really good moves to set up the team with some good contract signings.
Outlined it the other day in a different thread.
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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
Computer boys were the ones that fired Gallant.
Tallon was the one that made the questionable roster moves to rid the team of anybody the Computer Boys brought in.
-Trading Smith and Marchessault to Vegas to protect Petrovic in the expansion draft
-Traded Jason Demers (who has been good in Arizona) for Jamie McGinn
- Traded McCann and Bjugstad to Pittsburgh for nothing really
- Didn't get a good return for Trocheck
Rowe and the "Computer Boys" actually made some good moves in their 10 months in charge, with the only real black mark being firing Gallant.
Trades:
McCann, 2nd, 4th for Gudbranson, 5th
Packaged Bolland and Crouse for 2nd & 3rd to get rid of Bolland's contract
Signings:
Ekblad - 8 x $7.5M
Yandle - 7 x $6.4M
Huberdeau - 6 x $5.9M
Smith - 5 x $5M
Trocheck - 6 x $4.75M
Demers - 5 x $4.5M
Reimer - 5 x $3.4M
Those contracts are all actually decent. Ekblad, Huberdeau, Trocheck were core players locked up at good RFA prices. Yandle has been a 50 pt top pairing guy for the Panthers, Smith put up 50 points in year 1, had a down year in year two and then Tallon lost his mind in the expanson draft.
Demers is a bit overpaid but he's been good for Arizona as a top 4 dman averaging 20 minutes a game. Even the Reimer deal wasn't that bad, he went .920 and .913 his first two seasons in Florida, then had a down year at .900 and Tallon decided to trade him for Scott Darling so they could sign Bobrovsky. And now Reimer was great in Carolina this season.
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