Kevyn Adams GM thread
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Fjordy
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He screwed up almost everywhere. With goalies, we don't have a partner not only for Dahlin, but also for Power. But we have the useless Byram. We have almost only kids in the top 6 and it doesn't work. He deserves to be fired.
Goalie wise I give him the benefit of the doubt as he's tried. They just haven't worked out. Comrie played well in Winnipeg, came here and wasn't good. He goes back to Winnipeg this season and in 3 games is playing great.
Fjordy
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Almost five years and it's not his fault? Ullmark left a long time ago, and even when Ullmark was still around we had blind Hutton, then mostly bad goalies. But I was even talking about this season now. Why did he give up Reimer, why isn't Levi playing in Rochester, but sitting on the bench without playing practice? It makes no sense. So yeah, Adams screwed up at every position, including goalies.
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Goalie is unquestionably the position Adams has mismanaged the worst, which is saying something since he's mismanaged all of them.
His first season he chose not to replace Hutton, who's eyes literally didn't work.
He chose to lowball Ullmark, leading him to arbitration and eventually settling on a 1 year contract for his final year of RFA. Ullmark then walked for nothing.
Losing Ullmark then led to 3 years of not having an NHL caliber starter on the roster and battling for lowest cap spent on goalies every season.
UPL emerged as starting caliber for about half the season last year, so Adams gave him the bag.
Adams plan at goalie has essentially been "Lets hope a guy that Jason Botterill drafted with Tim Murray's staff turns out to be good, or the prospect that I traded Sam Reinhart for turns out to be good". No back up plan and no one to block the 2 prospects.
HaNotsri
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Well the prospect he traded for managed to block Portillo so he went +-0 when it comes to adding to the pipeline.
Fezzy126
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I tend to stick up for Adams more often than not, specifically with this last offseason:
Mitts was our leading scorer while playing with our worst wingers, and he yet he was still on pace to demand a contract that would be no higher than 5th or 6th among our skaters. There was no reason to move him from a cap or roster building perspective. On top of all that, Byram was a bottom 4 defenseman struggling to make an impact.
Every day I scratch my head wondering how Adams looked at his roster and thought "Nah, we don't need our leading scorer here anymore, that's not what this roster needs."
The fact that we're already hearing Byram's name in trade whispers just rekindles the flames, like "no f***ing shit Adams, what the hell were you thinking?"
- McLeod trade - Good (so far anyway)
- Zucker signing - Good
- Rebuilt 4th line of NAK, Lafferty, Malenstyn - Good
Mitts was our leading scorer while playing with our worst wingers, and he yet he was still on pace to demand a contract that would be no higher than 5th or 6th among our skaters. There was no reason to move him from a cap or roster building perspective. On top of all that, Byram was a bottom 4 defenseman struggling to make an impact.
Every day I scratch my head wondering how Adams looked at his roster and thought "Nah, we don't need our leading scorer here anymore, that's not what this roster needs."
The fact that we're already hearing Byram's name in trade whispers just rekindles the flames, like "no f***ing shit Adams, what the hell were you thinking?"
