MartyOwns
thank you shero
- Apr 1, 2007
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yeah i’m sure any GM could turn adam larsson into taylor hall. or draft one of our best forwards in the sixth round. or draft our top 2 centers (when fishermen were clamoring for kakko, by the way, who also spent years shitting on nico). our forwards went from a bunch of uutu’s to what we see today. and yes, i realize he didn’t have the time to fix the defense too, i’m so sure he would’ve passed on drafting luke and signing hamilton.He played his cards better than anyone else could have? This is some next level apologism. Saying that the moves he made are still benefiting the franchise is like saying the way Blackwood has played this season is the reason the team is good. Shero did the minimum you’d expect a rebuilding GM to do. Just about all the home run swings he went for didn’t work out and the only long term impact was further delaying the rebuild. Dude had no vision for how to construct a team with pieces that fit each other, and he certainly didn’t seem to have any interest in developing a proper defense core.
Shero is as mediocre a GM as you can get. Even in Pittsburgh he sort of just stumbled into one Stanley cup despite having two generational centers that were gifted to him for 9 seasons.
There are any number of other GM’s we could have had that would have been as “successful” as Shero was. He didn’t do anything special here at all.
just like every year when we have this conversation, i’ll point out that the moves shero didn’t make, which geriatric lou would’ve made in some sad attempt to stay relevant, were as important as the ones he did make. that’s why we had draft picks to make and trade. he bit the bullet, sucked it up and racked up the L’s. somebody had to do it, and it sure as shit wasn’t going to be lou. i shudder to think where this franchise would be now with that bald f*** at the helm. maybe by now we’d have 4 coaches simultaneously, eclipsing his previous record of three. i’d guess it would be lemaire, skrlac, maclean and terreri.
again, shero thanks for drafting competently so we could acquire timo. although i’m sure the sharks would’ve also been fine with checks notes …joshua jacobs lmao. what a john-quenneville-drafting-ass bitch.