Frank Seravalli " Worst GM Award , Jarmo Kekalainen, Mike Grier a close 2nd" Agree or disagree?
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Don't know much about Grier but Jarmo should've been canned at least three years ago. Keep the amateur scouting and the people in Cleveland, and gut the entire front office.
Grier inherited a mess, my sense is someone is just looking at the standings and talking out their @$$. There is frankly no way to accurately assess the success or failure of Grier's strategy until after the trade deadline.
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Frankie Blueberries
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Rob Blake has to be in this conversation.
Seravelli in the running for worst insider of the year, after his Crosby comments.
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i think it's pretty accurate.
blake is up there. honorable mention to fitzgerald.
blake is up there. honorable mention to fitzgerald.
Some under-appreciated entries in this could be Adams, Guerin, Treliving as well as the folks mentioned already.
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What has Grier done wrong so far? He's like 1 and a half years into a tear-down-and-rebuild.
Let's try Worst Hockey Media Head: Frank Seravalli. Agree or Disagree?
I think MacFarland/Sakic deserve the worst GM award if we're giving it out today. Even with Nuke back for the playoffs, I can't see that team doing anything.
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That’s a pretty wild take. Colorado would be one of the last teams on my list.
Lt Dan
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Way too early on Grier
But Jarmo sucks.
But Jarmo sucks.
zar
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It’s the Milbury-Chiarelli-Benning Award.
Grier has only been in his role for a year… not sure how you can judge him on anything yet.
Treliving deserves a nomination for his Calgary "rebuild" and subsequent fleeing of the mess he created. Although, with the Flames, it can sometimes be hard to tell how much is on the GM and how much is on the owner.
I also think he's done little to help the Leafs, but at least there, you can argue he was handcuffed by a lack of assets due to Dubas' deadline deals over the years.
I also think he's done little to help the Leafs, but at least there, you can argue he was handcuffed by a lack of assets due to Dubas' deadline deals over the years.
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Grier has done exactly what he was hired to do. Not sure what this schmuck expects already.
Honestly the biggest gripe I have so far is signing Givani Smith and letting Gadjovich go, which says a lot about the expectations for this current team.
Honestly the biggest gripe I have so far is signing Givani Smith and letting Gadjovich go, which says a lot about the expectations for this current team.
How are people sleeping on Garth Snow here?
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Grier should have more picks for a team in his position.
He has 8 picks for this draft?
after the deadline he better be around 12 or more
He has 8 picks for this draft?
after the deadline he better be around 12 or more
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Grier shouldn’t be in the mix based on the Meier trade alone. That was an excellent deal for the Sharks.
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It's also too easy to pick on the worst team in the league for an "award" like this.
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Jarmo is firing in waiting right now. The owner made that clear in their press conference at the start of training camp, addressing the Babcock fallout. He said something like ''The players have had enough distractions and don't need more'' which was obviously the Babcock stuff he was talking about. And the more ''Distractions'' part was obviously talking about firing Jarmo and possibly JD on the eve of camp, after they already thought they were getting Babcock to start the season and they didn't.
Wouldn't be surprised if he's one of those late season/deadline firings like Fletcher was last year. He can honestly go at any time now, if I had to guess, but I would say no later than like 2 days after their season ends he'll be ganked.
JD probably goes with him also, although JD may also be more of a figurehead and in a celebratory role, more than a day to day president of hockey ops. I think the first time he was there before he left for the Rangers (Which is a JOKE if they let him back as anything more than a figurehead/celebratory role lol) he really ran things, but not sure if he does since he came back 3 years ago.
Not sure what the issue is with Grier, unless you blame him for the team not sucking quite enough for Bedard last year. We KNEW the Sharks were going to be this bad. Everybody knew it before the season started, it was part of the design. I think most people knew Columbus was going to be bad, but they don't actually appear to be actively trying to be bad the last couple of years.
Wouldn't be surprised if he's one of those late season/deadline firings like Fletcher was last year. He can honestly go at any time now, if I had to guess, but I would say no later than like 2 days after their season ends he'll be ganked.
JD probably goes with him also, although JD may also be more of a figurehead and in a celebratory role, more than a day to day president of hockey ops. I think the first time he was there before he left for the Rangers (Which is a JOKE if they let him back as anything more than a figurehead/celebratory role lol) he really ran things, but not sure if he does since he came back 3 years ago.
Not sure what the issue is with Grier, unless you blame him for the team not sucking quite enough for Bedard last year. We KNEW the Sharks were going to be this bad. Everybody knew it before the season started, it was part of the design. I think most people knew Columbus was going to be bad, but they don't actually appear to be actively trying to be bad the last couple of years.
