2023-24 Mike Milbury Trophy (Worst GM)
Who was the worst GM of the year?
Who was the worst GM of the year?
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2023-24 Mike Milbury Trophy (Worst GM)
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Rob Blake has been a turd but the Kings did make the playoffs. Kyle Dubas doesn't really have an enviable position but he's made lackluster moves all the same.
Maybe Jarmo Kekäläinen considering he was actually canned. The Babcock hiring alone might be enough to secure him the Mike Milbury.
Maybe Jarmo Kekäläinen considering he was actually canned. The Babcock hiring alone might be enough to secure him the Mike Milbury.
popo
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Ottawa?
Offseason expectations were for the playoffs, and they failed miserably.
GM's moves: Korpisalo was a bust. Chychurn was bad. Tarasenko was bad. Bad return on Debricant. Coach fired mid season.
Offseason expectations were for the playoffs, and they failed miserably.
GM's moves: Korpisalo was a bust. Chychurn was bad. Tarasenko was bad. Bad return on Debricant. Coach fired mid season.
Briere wins with Blake and Yzerman as the other finalists.
golgoXIII
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Rob Blake is the worst i' ve seen for a long Time
Lt Dan
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Rob Blake for ignoring what everyone knew about PLD and trading
-Vilardi
-Iafallo
-Kupari
-Sean Durzi (The 2nd round pick from the trade w/AZ was used to aquire PLD)
and not trading Matt Roy at the deadline and getting something for a UFA that wasn't going to sign when everyone knew that the Kings were a 1 and out playoff team
-Vilardi
-Iafallo
-Kupari
-Sean Durzi (The 2nd round pick from the trade w/AZ was used to aquire PLD)
and not trading Matt Roy at the deadline and getting something for a UFA that wasn't going to sign when everyone knew that the Kings were a 1 and out playoff team
Dorion no question.
Traded for Chychrun at the 2022/23 deadline, but that was more of an acquisition for 23/24 since the Sens were a big longshot to make the playoffs at that point. Bought extremely high on him by trading a high 1st and two 2nds. Was sold to HFSens as a two-way D that could be shifted to the right side, but turned out he was only capable of playing the left side and is actually quite one-dimensional. Ended up getting moved for Jensen because he'd be on the 3rd pairing in Ottawa.
Signed Korpisalo to a 20M deal over 5 years, which was an obvious igregious error right from the start. Was one of the worst goalies in the league in 23/24 and Staios ended up having to give up value to dump him on the Bruins.
Got bent over in the DeBrincat trade return. Only ended up getting the 25th OVR pick for him after trading the 7th OVR + 39th OVR + a future 3rd the season before to add him. Helped a divisional rival get better by gifting them a top 6 forward and providing them the key to getting Patrick Kane to sign there for cheap.
Signed Tarasenko to a 5M deal when the Sens didn't have any cap space left, which put him in a position where teams were demanding a 1st to "take on" a solid young bottom 6er in Joseph so the Sens could get under the cap and create enough room to re-sign Pinto. Dorion ended up getting bailed out by Pinto getting a 41 game suspension, but it damaged the relationship. Also since he gave Tarasenko a full NTC as part of the deal Staios wasn't able to get much for him at the deadline, as he insisted on only being traded to the Panthers.
And of course the Sens were penalized a 1st round pick in 23/24 because Dorion's incompetence relating to the Dadonov trade, which was several years earlier but I'm still counting it because it was just the cherry on top of one of the worst off-seasons in a long time. Ended up getting the bumbling fool fired, but about 5 years too late.
Traded for Chychrun at the 2022/23 deadline, but that was more of an acquisition for 23/24 since the Sens were a big longshot to make the playoffs at that point. Bought extremely high on him by trading a high 1st and two 2nds. Was sold to HFSens as a two-way D that could be shifted to the right side, but turned out he was only capable of playing the left side and is actually quite one-dimensional. Ended up getting moved for Jensen because he'd be on the 3rd pairing in Ottawa.
Signed Korpisalo to a 20M deal over 5 years, which was an obvious igregious error right from the start. Was one of the worst goalies in the league in 23/24 and Staios ended up having to give up value to dump him on the Bruins.
Got bent over in the DeBrincat trade return. Only ended up getting the 25th OVR pick for him after trading the 7th OVR + 39th OVR + a future 3rd the season before to add him. Helped a divisional rival get better by gifting them a top 6 forward and providing them the key to getting Patrick Kane to sign there for cheap.
Signed Tarasenko to a 5M deal when the Sens didn't have any cap space left, which put him in a position where teams were demanding a 1st to "take on" a solid young bottom 6er in Joseph so the Sens could get under the cap and create enough room to re-sign Pinto. Dorion ended up getting bailed out by Pinto getting a 41 game suspension, but it damaged the relationship. Also since he gave Tarasenko a full NTC as part of the deal Staios wasn't able to get much for him at the deadline, as he insisted on only being traded to the Panthers.
And of course the Sens were penalized a 1st round pick in 23/24 because Dorion's incompetence relating to the Dadonov trade, which was several years earlier but I'm still counting it because it was just the cherry on top of one of the worst off-seasons in a long time. Ended up getting the bumbling fool fired, but about 5 years too late.
RickyLafleur
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-Korpisalo was bad from the get-go, no clue why dorion went after him.
-Chrychrun & Debrincat were massive disappointments, underperformed big time, and the returns were weak.
-Tarasenko was a good senator and played a 200ft game, the return was terrible though as expected.
-DJ should've been fired much sooner, everyone here knows how bad he is except former management.
Empoleon8771
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I don't know how the PLD trade alone doesn't make Blake the #1 runaway worst GM.
It's hard to choose between Dorion, Blake, Treliving, and Kekalainen.
I don't think Dubas belongs on the same level of any of those guys.
I don't think Dubas belongs on the same level of any of those guys.
Oleksiak
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Dubas is a level worse. Not sure why Pittsburgh hired someone so clearly unqualified to work in hockey ops. The issue is that Dubas has such a long history of gross incompetence that this seems normal.
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and gave him 7 years 40 mill to do so
Empoleon8771
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How exactly was Dubas worse last year?
He traded a bunch of cap dumps and a 1st for Karlsson and gave Graves and Jarry long-term deals. Even if you argue all of those moves were bad, he just simply didn't do enough of significance to match up with the failures of someone like Blake.
There's nothing really egregious in anything Dubas did this year. He took over a declining team and ... meh. It wasn't a great job but it isn't remotely on the same level as a) Blake's Dubois clusterf***, b) the mess in Columbus including the Babcock embarrassment, c) the disasterclass in Ottawa especially regarding Chychrun/Debrincat/Korpisalo, and d) Treliving taking over Dubas' team with $17 million to spend and somehow making it worse and ending up going backwards to another 1st round exit.
And all those moves were actually reasonably good. I think his worst move was getting suckered by a quantity over quality package for Guentzel because he couldn't help himself with Bunting.
It isn't on the same planet as some of the other incompetence this year.
sabremike
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This award needs to be renamed for Ed Johnston, the only GM who literally killed a team. He makes Milbury look like Sam Poolock in comparison.
HockeyVirus
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I am indifferent on Treliving so far but not sure how it is fair to say that when the guy was hired like a month before the draft and free agency and not even allowed to participate in some things.
And end of the day, the team finished the exact same way it has been for 8 years lol.
And end of the day, the team finished the exact same way it has been for 8 years lol.
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I think we have a winner...
Blake with PLD was bad, but at least he cut his losses instead of compounding them. Jarmo for the Babcock hiring, but not like they were going anywhere anyways. Dubas is just general levels of suck, but not sure he has the same peak as Dorion above. Treliving, I think also sucks, but hasn't made major bad moves with the Leafs and we're a year late on his peak awfulness with the Huberdeau signing.
