Confirmed with Link: Chris Drury hires Ryan Martin as his AGM

[Harbour Dog]

Sounds like as close to a perfect fit as we could have hoped for.

 

[RangerBoy]

I wonder if the fact that he didn't move earlier isn't simply due to a time of life thing, like he felt his kids were too young back then or something.

Though that said, interesting that it appears he's essentially moving laterally. Did the Rangers offer more money? I would think DET is one of the few orgs that the Rangers can't really outbid for such a candidate, if they don't want to lose him.

Did Martin have a falling out with Yzerman? I remember reading Holland wanted Martin to join him in Edmonton but Martin stayed with the Red Wings because he had worked with Yzerman before Yzerman went to TB. Maybe Martin wanted a new challenge.

 

[jacko23]

Im noticing a trend here.

Back to Sather's "Good Ol' Boys Club" i see...

 

[Irishguy42]

How well can he fight against Tom Wilson though?

 

[will1066]

Did Martin have a falling out with Yzerman? I remember reading Holland wanted Martin to join him in Edmonton but Martin stayed with the Red Wings because he had worked with Yzerman before Yzerman went to TB. Maybe Martin wanted a new challenge.

If he has been an AGM for 10 years, then really he should have been looking at GM jobs to move up in the career. Understandably, getting a GM job in the league isn't easy, but he's now got a GM title with the farm club, so that's a plus.

 

[Ola]

What is his Boston connection? Who is he family to? Sather's niece? Dolan's PT?

 

[KevinFinnerty]

I feel very comfortable with this hire and very happy to have a multi-faceted AGM who can help Drury. Now we got 2 Martins in the organization. One AGM, one D-coach. Speaking of Jacques, is he coming back this season?

 

[Thirty One]

As far as I can tell, he never went to BU.

I guess Pat Verbeek was Yzerman's assistant GM in Tampa, and he made the move to Detroit, and they've had 2 assistant GMs since then.

 

[Ola]

Did Martin have a falling out with Yzerman? I remember reading Holland wanted Martin to join him in Edmonton but Martin stayed with the Red Wings because he had worked with Yzerman before Yzerman went to TB. Maybe Martin wanted a new challenge.

Hopefully Drury just paid him really well!

 

[will1066]

I feel very comfortable with this hire and very happy to have a multi-faceted AGM who can help Drury. Now we got 2 Martins in the organization. One AGM, one D-coach. Speaking of Jacques, is he coming back this season?

No. He's gone, depriving Sam of saying, "Ryan Martin. No relation to assistant coach Jacques Martin."

 

[Off Sides]

Likes white clam chowder, and vocalizes chowder with an elongated inflection on the 'ow" part of the word

 

[Ola]

This sounds like a great signing on paper at least. A guy that has worked his way up the latter.

 

[NYR Viper]

If @Edge likes it, I love it

 

[Oscar Lindberg]

The fact that we hired him away from Yzerman is enough for me, anything on top of that is gravy

 

[Mandar]

how well does he know Larkin, and do we have some sort of covert way of getting him.....

 

[BBKers]

Somebody I know in Motor City does not like this. For DRW, that is...

 

[SA16]

So we hired an AHL GM to have a key role on the NHL team? How did it work when we hired a college coach to coach an NHL team? Can we stick with established successful NHL people please. I thought we learned our lesson.

 

[Crease]

of course he is from Connecticut

My first thought too

 

[Kravtsov420]

So we hired an AHL GM to have a key role on the NHL team? How did it work when we hired a college coach to coach an NHL team? Can we stick with established successful NHL people please. I thought we learned our lesson.

lmao respectfully what kind of complaint is this? i swear some of the garbage people are posting these days...this guy spent how many years in the red wings organization? that is not comparable to quinn at all...like 0%.

 

[OgeeOgelthorpe]

Seems like a pretty solid hire all around. Glad that we’ve finally added an aGM and cap guy to the front office

Wings fan here in peace.

Ryan Martin is hardly the capologist he's advertised to be. Detroit has him to blame for the following atrocious contracts:

Darren Helm - 5 years, 3.85 mil AAV
Justin Abdelkader - 7 years, 4.25 mil AAV
Danny DeKeyser - 6 years, 5 mil AAV
Frans Nielsen - 6 years, 5.25 mil AAV
Jonathan Ericsson - 6 years, 4.25 mil AAV
Stephen Weiss - 5 years, 4.9 mil AAV
Mike Green - 3 years, 6 mil AAV
Mike Green - 2 years, 5.375 mil AAV

Additionally, Grand Rapids, Detroit's farm team, is owned by the Devos family, not the Ilitch family. The way that the Grand Rapids Griffins was managed under Ryan Martin seemed like it was focused more on "winning now" in Grand Rapids than it was in the development of Red Wings prospects, and that has been reflected in their usage of a lot of AHL veterans rather than Detroit's kids in 1st and 2nd line roles.

The fact of the matter is this: Ryan Martin was a Ken Holland hold over and Yzerman has been slowly positioning his people in the organization. We Wings fans knew it was just a matter of time before he would be gone, and I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner.

Although Martin may not have been fired by Yzerman he would have likely needed Yzerman's blessing to seek employment with another organization. This isn't the coup that some people bill it as.

 

[Thirty One]

Wings fan here in peace.

Ryan Martin is hardly the capologist he's advertised to be. Detroit has him to blame for the following atrocious contracts:

Darren Helm - 5 years, 3.85 mil AAV
Justin Abdelkader - 7 years, 4.25 mil AAV
Danny DeKeyser - 6 years, 5 mil AAV
Frans Nielsen - 6 years, 5.25 mil AAV
Jonathan Ericsson - 6 years, 4.25 mil AAV
Stephen Weiss - 5 years, 4.9 mil AAV
Mike Green - 3 years, 6 mil AAV
Mike Green - 2 years, 5.375 mil AAV

Additionally, Grand Rapids, Detroit's farm team, is owned by the Devos family, not the Ilitch family. The way that the Grand Rapids Griffins was managed under Ryan Martin seemed like it was focused more on "winning now" in Grand Rapids than it was in the development of Red Wings prospects, and that has been reflected in their usage of a lot of AHL veterans rather than Detroit's kids in 1st and 2nd line roles.

The fact of the matter is this: Ryan Martin was a Ken Holland hold over and Yzerman has been slowly positioning his people in the organization. We Wings fans knew it was just a matter of time before he would be gone, and I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner.

Although Martin may not have been fired by Yzerman he would have likely needed Yzerman's blessing to seek employment with another organization. This isn't the coup that some people bill it as.

You think a capologist has veto power over bad contracts?

 

[Alluckks]

Can't wait to see him granted an honorary degree from BU over the weekend!

 

[OgeeOgelthorpe]

You think a capologist has veto power over bad contracts?

Veto power? I doubt it. But he was at least partially responsible for Detroit's cap woes from 2014 onward.

I don't believe for a second that he was telling Ken Holland that Darren Helm was worth 2.3 mil max, and Holland was saying, "But he's been a good soldier! Let's give him a 1.55 mil loyalty bonus!"

 

[Levitate]

So we hired an AHL GM to have a key role on the NHL team? How did it work when we hired a college coach to coach an NHL team? Can we stick with established successful NHL people please. I thought we learned our lesson.

He's been assistant GM in Detroit for the past decade as well

It's not uncommon for the NHL assistant GM to also be the GM of the AHL team. Jim Schoenfeld had that role for the Rangers for years under Sather I believe

 

[Cmox]

Someone needs to tell this guy Mike Murphy his Twitter pic makes him look like an infant and a 54-year-old man simultaneously. Every time I see it I shudder.

Just imagine the pics he didn’t want to use.