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Originally Posted by Saqe
I don't know if you are on a personal vendetta against Tallon but this part is just nonsense.
Tallon took over in Chicago in 2005 after the Blackhawks had been terrible for almost a decade. By year four they were in the playoffs (lost in the conference finals) and the next year they were the SC champs. He built the core that made Chicago the perennial contender they are today.
When he took over in Florida in 2010 the Panthers had been a perennial loser since their existence. He had nothing to work with, their prospect pool was zero. They made the playoffs on his second year with mercenaries like Fleichmann and Versteeg but it wasn't sustainable and only last year their own prospects and drafting started coming into fruition. It's hard not to see them competing for the playoffs for the foreseeable future.
He has been handed keys to two different organizations that were completely crap and he turned them around. Whether Florida can become a perennial playoff team and a contender remains to be seen but the core is there.
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Nothing personal at all but if we are going to slam the Oilers for losing into high draft picks we should be consistent in bashing poor management? He (director of player personnel from 1998-2002) whiffed on every single first round pick until 2003 when he finally got some hits and that team was in shambles then in 2004 he whiffed on Barker at 3rd overall and in 2005 Jack Skille in 2005 at 7th overall. The team got so bad he got to pick Toews and Kane at 3rd and 1st overall in successive drafts and we've learned from the Oilers that any team can pick top five consistently and accumulate talent. Once the Hawks got better it became apparent to management he was not the guy to handle building the team and he got the axe after wasting $$$ on Khabibulin, Brian Campbell, and Cristobal Huet then of course there was the major qualifying offer mishap where he had the offers mailed (they are supposed to be faxed not mailed) and he was generally viewed as a bumbling idiot in Chicago when he was fired. Yeah I bet you forgot how bad the Hawks were in their cap situation with him?
I must have missed when the Panthers turned around. When he took over the Panthers yes they were a perennial loser and what has he done to change that outside of simply being worse so he could attain higher draft picks in successive drafts (sounds familiar doesn't it?). Sorry guys but he's a terrible GM and I fail to see anything he's done that even Kevin Lowe couldn't under the same circumstances.
