Of course we don’t know. What we do know he loves Hyman type players over most other forwards.
There isn’t anything wrong with hanafin he just isn’t close to marner level, hanafin will not be a top pair dman he really is just your normal every day top4 d man at pick #4 you need better ceiling than that. I’d honestly take Rielly and gardiner over him obviously he has age on his side. He plays sheltered mins on the 3rd pair right now and isn’t close to outplaying that position. Anyway this kind of off on a tangent the Hanifon stuff sorry.
I would be massively disappointed if babcock became coach and gm,
and Pat Quinn had his particular flavour of player but he didn't let that impact his decisions in drafting and signing players. I doubt v. much Babcock would be a GM, but again - assuming that all he'd do is get Hyman type players, is unfair.
Like I said. part of the reason why you never see any GM/Coaches anymore (like legitimate this is not an interim thing) is due to the fact that there needs to be a separation of sorts. Coaches see short term (how to win that night/that week), and GM's for the most part need to focus on how to cultivate a team for the year (or two) and why we see a lot of presidents now is that their job is to see a five+ year group. Many GMs who are both are splitting the role from GM/President which strengthens this argument.
but i've rarely seen a Coach/GM combo make decisons based on their particular flavour of play, and if for whatever reason, if Babcock got the job, assuming that all he'd want are gritty type players is playing into this boards biases that that's
all Babcock cares about. Which is again. unfair and not true at all.