Kevyn Adams GM thread

[Fjordy]

Time to fire.

 

[sabremike]

It really speaks to what a clownshoes organization this is when their AHL GM is a billion times more competent and qualified than the NHL one.

 

[BFLO]

I've stated multiple times they need to either bring in an experienced GM who has carte blanche to remake the front office or bring in an outside consultant who has built a winning team help restructure the front office. Swapping in Adams for another 1st time GM who the owner can bully into getting what he wants is just asking for more of the same.




The cheapness and decision to go with unsupported kids over several seasons (and having a coach who told them to just play and not worry about defense) seems to caused long term damage that needs to be undone.
Veterans and leadership on a team with no real aspirations costs two things: money and a roster spot.

Opting for Vets like Hinostroza, Pysyk, Butcher, Eakin, Hayden, Bjork, Clague, Lybushkin, Jost, Anderson, etc vs getting vets that are respected and can still play a bit at a higher dollar cost was a mistake. In most of those cases, those players were simply cheap for their role.

Multiple opportunities there were to take on a veteran player with a higher dollar hit (and get paid to do so) were ignored. The only real example where they did was Will Butcher.

And it was the same with the coaches. After Granato's interim year, Adams make a big case about going to talk to all these coaches...and he just circled back and signed the cheapest one, which was Granato. And the staff was just as cheap. Matt Ellis isn't an assistant coach in this league...yet he's been kept around...because he's cheap. They've had the same assistant coaches the last 4 years, with the only change being swapping out Jason Christie with Seth Appert.

The cheapness on support, both in coaching and on the ice, has been the downfall of the team long term.

We could have taken on Ghost Bear instead of Butcher and gotten paid more in assets and had a much, much better player.

But Ghost bear cost like $3m more in cash than Butcher in a season where we had $25m in cap space.