Management UPDATE: Steve Staios GM and POHO, Dave Poulin Senior VP of Hockey Operations

[Sting]

There's a lot of GMs who suck at their jobs but don't sound like morons when talking to the media...what does that matter?

Public perception is incredibly important in sports. The franchise has been a laughing stock for how many years now? Only part of that had to do with on-ice performance. The rest was the Dorion show.

 

[BankStreetParade]

Well would you rather suck at your job quietly or suck at your job and sound like a complete moron as well?

That doesn't matter to me. I'm not judging Staios on his public speaking style, I'm judging him on the results we get. He could be as gifted an orator as Obama was and it wouldn't matter if we don't get good results. Would it make a difference to you?

 

[BankStreetParade]

Public perception is incredibly important in sports. The franchise has been a laughing stock for how many years now? Only part of that had to do with on-ice performance. The rest was the Dorion show.

The Edmonton Oilers were an even bigger laughing stock and the only thing that changed that was on-ice success. Dorion wouldn't have really been a story if this team was making the playoffs consistently, it's really not that complicated. This is a results league. You don't get results, you get fired. It's only people on this board who continue to have this weird obsession with a guy who was fired more than a year ago and his poor public speaking style. If we were making the playoffs consistently, he could have talked like The Count from Sesame Street for all I give a shit.

 

[BonHoonLayneCornell]

People need to calm down on the Staios love.

So far he's only made a bunch of moves.

We have no idea if the team got better.

Dorion spent 7 years trying to solve goaltending unsuccessfully. Staios solved it in less than one year and dumped the worst UFA contract ever handed out in Ottawa as part of that deal. That deal is the work of a genius at least.

 

[BonHoonLayneCornell]

The Edmonton Oilers were an even bigger laughing stock and the only thing that changed that was on-ice success. Dorion wouldn't have really been a story if this team was making the playoffs consistently, it's really not that complicated. This is a results league. You don't get results, you get fired. It's only people on this board who continue to have this weird obsession with a guy who was fired more than a year ago and his poor public speaking style. If we were making the playoffs consistently, he could have talked like The Count from Sesame Street for all I give a shit.

They also weren't making the playoffs in large part because he wasn't good at his job though, so it all kind of plays in together when assessing the disastrous period under his "leadership".