Honestly there are no good options for us.
Whatever they started as, it’s not that anymore. The whole thing needs to be gutted and started again.Someone's shared that clip many, many times as recently as this season as proof of what a winner Marner is.
I guess with his contract just being up, Shanacanned doesn’t make much sense. A real missed opportunity.
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Shanny Dubas Keefe all rookies learnt on the job f***ed then get plumb jobs in other organizations.Depends entirely on ownership and what they let him get away with.
Good:
- knows how to spend money if the owner allows him to
- Can attract executive talent if given the biggest platform in hockey and the ability to spend more than everyone else
Bad:
- Slimy politician that fades away and reappears whenever it's convenient, and will do anything to preserve his spot
Ugly:
- 0 asset management
- 0 talent assessment
- Unable to make ANY difficult decisions
- Unable to win any contract negotiations
- He will make statements like this:
Shanahan says Leafs’ young stars will have to sacrifice financially - TSN.ca
Citing his old Red Wings team as an example, Leafs president Brendan Shanahan suggested some financial sacrifices that players like William Nylander, Mitch Marner and Auston Matthews could make to stay together and try to help the franchise finally achieve something special.
And then follow it up with the worst contracts and selfish loser culture you could ever imagine
- Tried reinventing the game of hockey and provided nothing but the most embarrassing moments year after year while looking down his nose at everyone who dared question his Square Wheel Anti-Hockey Theory
- Wasted almost a decade of time and irreparably damaged the franchise
Overall? When the stakes are low and given an open checkbook he is able to surround himself with the most bloated executive team in hockey and is able to tank (congrats?). When it comes time to actually build and develop the team, and reap the rewards of tanking then the knives come out for anyone that disagrees with him and the team becomes a Yuppie Stasis Chamber where you see your favourite players walk out the door for nothing and the most gutless losers you've seen in your life put on a pedestal over all-time legends that are pillars that the franchise and league were built on.
But maybe he'll be better for the Islanders.
Shanny's greatest feat was failing fantastically. He offloaded whatever talent we had and tanked to get the core guys, paid handsomely for Tavares.
Just because Shanahan failed here doesn't mean he sucks at his job so he's probably not a bad hire for the position. His 1st time in that kind of position I believe and maybe he learned a lot and learns from it. At the end of the day he was loyal to a core that let him down and you can't get too mad at him for that. He hired a young GM to take over for Lou who was supposed to be the next best thing and the funny thing is signing Tavares probably hurt this teams natural rebuild and accelerated it which led to some bad moves afterwards. Then Covid hit and made that accelerated rebuild even worse because the cap didn't rise and now we were stuck with a 11 million dollar contract on a player who was great but not 11 million a year great. Long story short. Don't let people fool you that he's a bad hire because it didn't work out here. We might be upset because this core has failed but Shanahan and even Dubas tbh weren't the main reasons we have 2 series wins in his time here.
Expect the type of genius who thinks Justin Holl is more valuable than Cole Caufield.
The Isles biggest need is to create a modern front office structure - they're stuck in the 90s now because Lou probably liked it that way. Shanahan would probably be good at that part.
