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Its no slight on Bourdon who probably would've had a decent NHL career.
Sedin Kesler Kopitar probably guarantees one cup for that core.
What is the single worst decision your team ever made?
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Sedin Kesler Kopitar probably guarantees one cup for that core.
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There are so many bad moves and that one is right up there. I might put drafting Dipietro over Gaborik or Heatley right up there when the team already had just drafted Luongo very high a couple seasons before
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Not too sure about that. In his Spittin Chiclets interview, Chara and his agent said it was the cap.
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Bobby Orrtuzzo
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No matter what happens with Tage (barring multiple cups) this picture alone will trump anything he will ever do
The answer for the Blues is Mike Keenan
A land war in Asia is the only bigger mistake than employing Milbury.
GMR
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Trading the best athlete in the history of team sports, at 27 years old, a reigning 8x consecutive MVP winner, during a dynasty, is the worst decision any franchise ever made, let alone the Oilers.
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The top of the list officially is Cam Neely for Barry Pederson.
but Pederson had a couple of good years with us and Neely didn't do nothing.
Keenan and Messier. Trevor traded. In fairness, the once mighty 1994 team had collapsed with all the off ice stuff going on bad trades. "Iron Mike" and Mess brought their vision to the team and a new culture which started with getting rid of Trevor Linden. What ownership who watched the 1994 finals didn't realize was how much the fans already hated Mess from 94 and his years as an oiler (Messier once highsticked Rich Sutter in the mouth which he should have been suspended for. Days later Richie's dentist discovers and pulls out hockey tape from the back of his mouth).
Before that it's trading Gary Smith for Ceasar Maniago. It would be decades after Smith was run out of town before the Canucks would have a winning season. Smith was voted 5th overall for the Hart trophy won by Bobby Clarke that year who said that Smith was more deserving. "Suitcase" would go on to win the Avco Cup in the last year of the WHA.
Drafting and not trading Jim Sandlak. It was largely believed that Sandlak's size is what made Canada's Jr team so great, "House" was picked over better players and not traded to Boston because he was considered a better prospect than Neely. In fact, they would never trade Sandlak and radio call in shows in Vancouver often trolled the broadcasters and the team to try and get Lemieux for him. House would not start making an impact until he was taken on as a special project for recently retired Stan Smyl when he was charged with taking it to Phil Hously in the 1993 playoffs. He was packed off to Hartford after that.
Canucks hire Bill Laforge. A junior football coach with no real hockey experience, Harry Neale's gamble with an outsider proved a disaster for the team with his over aggressive demands and behaviour. He permanently ended Darcy Rota's career by making the team do football still practices after Rota returned from an injury.
Canucks sign Vladmir Krutov. Krutov got the short end of the stick as he was coaxed out of retirement as a 32 year old with the help of former KLM linemate Igor "The Professor" Larionov. They were each paid $750k, near the top of the league in salary at the time. Overweight and out of shape, "The Tank" was a virtual slave in the Soviet Red Army team and was not allowed to go to the bathroom without Tikonov telling him to. He had trouble adapting to the language and culture. Worse, the local radio stations ran a beer commercial over and over all year long of how the canucks got went to Russia to get two sharp shooters. Igor's love of hotdogs made the papers but, unfortunately for Vladdy, it got attributed to him instead. These were two guys when they first saw meat at the grocery store started filling up their baskets not knowing it would still be there the next day.
In the end Arthur Griffiths decided he would try to not pay him. Quinn and Brian Burke had to fly to Switzerland to sit and hear the ruling against the club. Krutov passed away as a member of the IIHF Hall of Fame.
New owners bungle and lose Pavel Bure in negotiations. There's all sorts of issues that happened with him. First, the new owners thought they were great negotiators and gave Pavel what he thought was the same salary as Mogilny. But AlMo was paid in American dollars and he discovered he wasn't. Quinn and Burke take the "best guy available" in the 1992 draft which apparently not Pavel's brother Valeri who would score 35 goals and 75 points a few years later. Canucks didn't re-sign Igor Larionov after he left the team to play a year in Europe to save the Canucks $1m in transfer fees - Bure idiolized him. There were rumours of promises made the owners had no intention of keeping with Pavel so he simply refused to play and the team had to sit and wait until they could find a trade they could stomach and that took Brian Burke, a new manager, to finally pull off.
Pat Quinn goes back to full time GM and let's Rick Ley coach. Quinn was a genius as a coach. As a GM he had a lot of dumb hockey friends, like "Professor" Ron Carron, in St Louis whom he robbed of some fantastic young talent. Ley's talked a brilliant game of hockey, a genius with the X's and O's. Turns out it was all talk and the players would abandon his systems as they realized what garbage they were (his favorite they called "the weak left side"). Unfortunately, Quinn got in his head that the team needed to get faster so he traded Sergio Momesso and the decided that Cliff Ronning was too small. He couldn't keep from tinkering what was broken. He was also played favorites, which kept Darryl Stanley around and earned the ire of Greg C. Adams who was waived.
Canucks draft Nedved second overall. Over Keith Primeau, Mike Ricci, and Jaramir Jagr. Much has been excused over Jagr, universally acknowledge to be the best prospect in the draft, going fifth but the reality was the cold war was over and these GM's couldn't get it out their heads. He was sitting there right in the stands at the draft. Petr made headlines defecting as a 16 year old at the juniors and modeled his game after Wayne Gretzky and his techniques were scary. He did well on the Seattle Thunderbirds. But it was a gamble, he was short and they didn't realize all that emotion showed he was flaky so like his Czechoslovak team he walked away from, he did the same for the Canucks.
Canucks refuse to pay Roger Neilson. Pioneering the use of tape, "Captain Video" was a certified genius as a coach in all aspects. As the architect of the 1982 run to the finals the team, and most of the rest of the league, still wave towels, have whiteouts, have the sea of red etc. His tactics and innovations are legendary, his creation of the "Left Wing Lock" system aka "The Trap" won NJ their first cup, and it's still in use today. The league had to change the rules to try to reduce it's impact. His character was unquestionable. But Griffiths decided the crap team that he couldn't get any more out of was his fault: or quite simply, he was due a raise just like Petri Skriko was due years later and Roger had to sue. Today his statue stands outside of the arena.
but Pederson had a couple of good years with us and Neely didn't do nothing.
Keenan and Messier. Trevor traded. In fairness, the once mighty 1994 team had collapsed with all the off ice stuff going on bad trades. "Iron Mike" and Mess brought their vision to the team and a new culture which started with getting rid of Trevor Linden. What ownership who watched the 1994 finals didn't realize was how much the fans already hated Mess from 94 and his years as an oiler (Messier once highsticked Rich Sutter in the mouth which he should have been suspended for. Days later Richie's dentist discovers and pulls out hockey tape from the back of his mouth).
Before that it's trading Gary Smith for Ceasar Maniago. It would be decades after Smith was run out of town before the Canucks would have a winning season. Smith was voted 5th overall for the Hart trophy won by Bobby Clarke that year who said that Smith was more deserving. "Suitcase" would go on to win the Avco Cup in the last year of the WHA.
Drafting and not trading Jim Sandlak. It was largely believed that Sandlak's size is what made Canada's Jr team so great, "House" was picked over better players and not traded to Boston because he was considered a better prospect than Neely. In fact, they would never trade Sandlak and radio call in shows in Vancouver often trolled the broadcasters and the team to try and get Lemieux for him. House would not start making an impact until he was taken on as a special project for recently retired Stan Smyl when he was charged with taking it to Phil Hously in the 1993 playoffs. He was packed off to Hartford after that.
Canucks hire Bill Laforge. A junior football coach with no real hockey experience, Harry Neale's gamble with an outsider proved a disaster for the team with his over aggressive demands and behaviour. He permanently ended Darcy Rota's career by making the team do football still practices after Rota returned from an injury.
Canucks sign Vladmir Krutov. Krutov got the short end of the stick as he was coaxed out of retirement as a 32 year old with the help of former KLM linemate Igor "The Professor" Larionov. They were each paid $750k, near the top of the league in salary at the time. Overweight and out of shape, "The Tank" was a virtual slave in the Soviet Red Army team and was not allowed to go to the bathroom without Tikonov telling him to. He had trouble adapting to the language and culture. Worse, the local radio stations ran a beer commercial over and over all year long of how the canucks got went to Russia to get two sharp shooters. Igor's love of hotdogs made the papers but, unfortunately for Vladdy, it got attributed to him instead. These were two guys when they first saw meat at the grocery store started filling up their baskets not knowing it would still be there the next day.
In the end Arthur Griffiths decided he would try to not pay him. Quinn and Brian Burke had to fly to Switzerland to sit and hear the ruling against the club. Krutov passed away as a member of the IIHF Hall of Fame.
New owners bungle and lose Pavel Bure in negotiations. There's all sorts of issues that happened with him. First, the new owners thought they were great negotiators and gave Pavel what he thought was the same salary as Mogilny. But AlMo was paid in American dollars and he discovered he wasn't. Quinn and Burke take the "best guy available" in the 1992 draft which apparently not Pavel's brother Valeri who would score 35 goals and 75 points a few years later. Canucks didn't re-sign Igor Larionov after he left the team to play a year in Europe to save the Canucks $1m in transfer fees - Bure idiolized him. There were rumours of promises made the owners had no intention of keeping with Pavel so he simply refused to play and the team had to sit and wait until they could find a trade they could stomach and that took Brian Burke, a new manager, to finally pull off.
Pat Quinn goes back to full time GM and let's Rick Ley coach. Quinn was a genius as a coach. As a GM he had a lot of dumb hockey friends, like "Professor" Ron Carron, in St Louis whom he robbed of some fantastic young talent. Ley's talked a brilliant game of hockey, a genius with the X's and O's. Turns out it was all talk and the players would abandon his systems as they realized what garbage they were (his favorite they called "the weak left side"). Unfortunately, Quinn got in his head that the team needed to get faster so he traded Sergio Momesso and the decided that Cliff Ronning was too small. He couldn't keep from tinkering what was broken. He was also played favorites, which kept Darryl Stanley around and earned the ire of Greg C. Adams who was waived.
Canucks draft Nedved second overall. Over Keith Primeau, Mike Ricci, and Jaramir Jagr. Much has been excused over Jagr, universally acknowledge to be the best prospect in the draft, going fifth but the reality was the cold war was over and these GM's couldn't get it out their heads. He was sitting there right in the stands at the draft. Petr made headlines defecting as a 16 year old at the juniors and modeled his game after Wayne Gretzky and his techniques were scary. He did well on the Seattle Thunderbirds. But it was a gamble, he was short and they didn't realize all that emotion showed he was flaky so like his Czechoslovak team he walked away from, he did the same for the Canucks.
Canucks refuse to pay Roger Neilson. Pioneering the use of tape, "Captain Video" was a certified genius as a coach in all aspects. As the architect of the 1982 run to the finals the team, and most of the rest of the league, still wave towels, have whiteouts, have the sea of red etc. His tactics and innovations are legendary, his creation of the "Left Wing Lock" system aka "The Trap" won NJ their first cup, and it's still in use today. The league had to change the rules to try to reduce it's impact. His character was unquestionable. But Griffiths decided the crap team that he couldn't get any more out of was his fault: or quite simply, he was due a raise just like Petri Skriko was due years later and Roger had to sue. Today his statue stands outside of the arena.
Bourdon was a great prospect who showed promise. He made some mistakes but was clearly learning. D's usually don't into the roster that young.
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And many years ago he gave an interview to a Slovakian reporter and talked about how the Hossa situation was handled.
Throwing Fiala away to overpay scrubs has to be the dumbest thing a GM has done in the last 20 years or so.
Crosstraffic
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Boy where to start....
Taking 38 year old Terry Sawchuk as the first pick of the 1967 expansion draft, when 22 year old Bernie Parent and Rogie Vachon were available. Sawchuk won a whopping 10 games for the Kings that year and was ineffective in the playoffs.
Trading first round picks to Boston, Montreal and Buffalo like they were candy for mediocre talent. Picks that became Reggie Leach, Andre Savard, Steve Shutt, Ray Bourque, Tom Barrasso, and Phil Housley.
Picking Doug Smith #2 in 1981 when Ron Francis was available.
Trading Larry Murphy for Brian Engblom
Taking 38 year old Terry Sawchuk as the first pick of the 1967 expansion draft, when 22 year old Bernie Parent and Rogie Vachon were available. Sawchuk won a whopping 10 games for the Kings that year and was ineffective in the playoffs.
Trading first round picks to Boston, Montreal and Buffalo like they were candy for mediocre talent. Picks that became Reggie Leach, Andre Savard, Steve Shutt, Ray Bourque, Tom Barrasso, and Phil Housley.
Picking Doug Smith #2 in 1981 when Ron Francis was available.
Trading Larry Murphy for Brian Engblom
He did similar things here in Toronto. Signed Zaitsev and Marleau to outrageous deals that forced us to give up assets to get rid of them. The Zaitsev one we were lucky on. Marleau cost us a 1st because of that damn extra year!
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