Kevyn Adams GM thread
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fire this f***ing idiot yesterday. there's other GM candidates out there that could walk in and do a better job with one hand tied behind their back.
or something else. one can only hope.
Of course but why would they cancel practice to fire their GM?
Ace
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Because they’re having a party?
toddkaz
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Exactly, how many times did Granato say that and nothing changed.
In my opinion this team has the talent to make the playoffs so what the F*** are they doing on the ice?
If Cozens and Quinn get their head out of their asses this team makes the playoffs.
KA never should have walked Ullmark to leave as a RFA. By now, he would be gone anyway for UPL, but that's 3-4 years of crap goaltending KA brought upon the team with no possible starter level guy in the organization. I won't blame him for the Eichel trade because Eichel wanted out due to what had been going on before KA was given the job. I will blame him for walking Reinhart into leaving as a UFA. He didn't commit to a smart net-front FW, and so Reinhart didn't commit to the team. He could still fit under the cap today, and should be here. Then the Mitts trade. Mitts isn't "the answer" but he sure as hell fit the needs of the roster a HELL of a lot more than Byram does. KA, despite the most recent history of Cozens play (for the previous 10 months actually), decided that "his guy" was worth a big contract and worth penning him in as a 2C. KA also decided depth and flexibility at C/FW wasn't necessary.
He should have kept Mitts, made a UFA signing or futures trade for a legit defensive vet RHD. He should have traded Krebs+ or Savoie for McLeod, made the other moves for the 4th line guys, and have a C spine of TT/Mitts/Cozens or McLeod/McLeod or Krebs. I'm not sure how a Skinner buy-out would still fit under the above circumstances, but either way they need more vets and less younger, weaker, inexperienced guys that don't know how to play defense. This massively forced plan to keep ELCs or under-25 guys on the roster above and beyond their physical/mental ability tanks their playoff chances and hinders their development. It's great to build through the draft, but you have to ease young players in with roles that make sense...not force Cozens, Quinn, Benson, Peterka, and Power into spots they aren't quite ready for, all at the same time.
He should have kept Mitts, made a UFA signing or futures trade for a legit defensive vet RHD. He should have traded Krebs+ or Savoie for McLeod, made the other moves for the 4th line guys, and have a C spine of TT/Mitts/Cozens or McLeod/McLeod or Krebs. I'm not sure how a Skinner buy-out would still fit under the above circumstances, but either way they need more vets and less younger, weaker, inexperienced guys that don't know how to play defense. This massively forced plan to keep ELCs or under-25 guys on the roster above and beyond their physical/mental ability tanks their playoff chances and hinders their development. It's great to build through the draft, but you have to ease young players in with roles that make sense...not force Cozens, Quinn, Benson, Peterka, and Power into spots they aren't quite ready for, all at the same time.
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I still wonder how the conversation to hire Adams even went down. No qualifications. No contacts worth a shit. No reputation. And he’s handed a job that comes without resources, a full hockey department or anyone with a clue how to run a hockey department.
If someone offered you a job you were woefully unqualified for…I mean…have an ounce of self respect or love for the game and refuse it.
He’s that bad.
If someone offered you a job you were woefully unqualified for…I mean…have an ounce of self respect or love for the game and refuse it.
He’s that bad.
Did anything leak about why this happened?
stokes84
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Tage Thompson not making the US Team is an absolute indictment on Kevyn Adams. The other GMs have no respect for him.
My Cozen Dylan
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Most likely they were getting laid into in the video room by Lindy.
I just think it's an indictment on USA Hockey always building crap rosters.
Mattilaus
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If someone comes and offers me high 6 figures to run an NHL team, I am taking it. Qualifications be damned. I'll just poll Hfboards before every decision. This is on Pegs.
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I would never take a job I’m not at all qualified for. The number of people whose livelihoods are at risk because of my incompetence? The number of careers ruined? The number of people you flat out hurt? It’s a selfish thing to do. And you have to feel like a total phony, dead inside, empty shell of a man every single day.
No.
Make it a billion dollars. I’ll keep my self respect….and my dignity because people won’t be clowning me for being this bad at the job for the rest of my miserable life.
You can take the money. but you’re no better than him. And he’s the worst. Not like he didn’t already make NHL money and have a job for life with this owner anyway.
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The team has their worst choke in years and management's/ or the coaches response is to give them a day off the next day? Make this make sense.. I'd hope they were at least in the video room all day.
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Probably didn’t want to pay the added electrical cost to turn on the arena lights.
If you turn down a billion dollars you’re nothing more than a fool.
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You don't want to know how I read this sentence.
Dreakon13
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I'm hoping it's a day for Lindy to tear them a new one away from the public's prying eye.
But it's most likely a day in the video room and shielding the players from getting feasted on by the media. Which I don't like, but given how mentally weak we know this group is, I guess that may be a thing to do.
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Then I’ll be the fool that doesn’t make millions of people miserable, cost hundreds their livelihoods and still live more than comfortably on the paychecks I’ve already made and continue to make.
I’d rather be a fool than that. If rather be a fool than someone so money hungry they destroy everything around them. I would rather be a fool than a piece of shit.
f***, I would.
I can't count the number of managers I've had and/or seen that are totally unqualified for their positions. It's the American Corporate Way. Lots of shitheads have done it to get ahead, so if I get the chance you're damned right I'll take it.
Mattilaus
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Right? People make fun of me for the rest of my "miserable" life? If I have a billion dollars I am pretty sure I can make that "miserable" life so sweet that I won't care.
Well, thank you for implying I am equally as bad as, the worst person with no dignity or self respect, and am selfish because of a post on the internet. Maybe you need to step away for a bit.
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Of course, it's the presses fault next. It's been the PR play book the last month.
LOL…life always goes on and the cream will always rise to the top. If people are good at a job they will get noticed and recognized.
Meanwhile, I’ll enjoy my cool billion with my family! Sorry I made “millions” of people miserable because I was an under qualified GM of a hockey team!
