PK Cronin
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- Feb 11, 2013
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PK...I think the problem is that you seem to be hanging your hat more than most on what *could* be the case, and seemingly putting more importance on that then wins and losses - Which is the bottom line on how all GMs should be judged. That was always my debate with you.
I don't believe for a second Tavares would leave if we hired a more competent GM - No matter his relationship with snow. If Tavares is going to leave it's because of everything we've been hearing - The chance to win, which, unlike a possible relationship, we can easily see that is an issue because of snow's failures.
It's like it finally took Tavares' potential departure to get snow to wake up and try to have a good offseason. Why did it come to this? I mean if snow is such a good friend to JT, why not surround him with better talent earlier? Because again the business of hockey comes first no matter how close you are with someone.
snow seemingly had a great relationship with Hamonic and wanted to help him with his family matters (the most important thing) and yet he wasn't going to let him go with out getting a fair deal and it took over a year.
If snow drafted better, traded better, and signed better, we would be much closer to the Cup and wouldn't be missing the playoffs 8 years into Tavares' career. If snow didn't fail as much as he did then the Isles would be better and they're wouldn't be talk about him leaving.
So again it doesn't matter about if snow/JT are friends. If snow did better as a GM then all problems would be solved.
Loyalty can go a long way in swaying someone, that's all I'm saying. Not interested in revisiting the debate.
I don't put more importance on what could be the case (that seems to be an issue with our debate, because sometimes you think I'm actively defending Snow and think he's a good GM when I'm just exploring possible scenarios in which it may make sense to keep him around), I just like to know or explore as much as I can about a particular situation to help me understand the decision making process. It'd also be nice to not be ridiculed for speculating, but it is what it is.