Which GM hire was most damaging for their team?

[Snap]

Which GM in NHL history did the most damage collectively through trades, bad draft picks and overpaid free agent signings?

Chiarelli with his disastrous Oilers tenure including the Koskinen contract, Yakupov pick and infamous Hall trade?

Milbury trading Luongo and Chara? His overpayment of Yashin?

Those are 2 of the obvious ones. Any under the radar picks? Curious to hear who has done the most damage in your opinions.

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[VeteranPresence]

The Oilers hat trick of Chiarelli, Holland, and now Stan Bowman has done immeasurable damage. They would have at least one Cup by now if the team was properly run, but here we are in Year 10 of Connor McDavid wondering if John Klingberg’s bionic hips and a goalie with a .902 save percentage are the solutions on defence and in goal. Just complete idiocy from a group of has beens every season.

 

[Dakinjor]

Re-upping on chia’s awful tenure for the oilers,

1 Trading a 2015 1st and 2nd for griffin Reinhardt,

2 signing lucic to that awful boat anchor contract

3 trading for Brandon manning, the one guy who mcdavid actually very much hated at the time cause he intentionally
broke his clavicle.

4 Boyd Gordon for Lauri korpikoski into buying him out.

Just a bad bad gm who if he didn’t have Draisaitl and Mcdavid would have build the equivalent to a wet fart.

 

[BHD]

Casual fans will say Kyle Dubas for the Pens, but it's Ron Hextall. Outside of acquiring Rickard Rakell, he wasted a bunch assets on mediocre players. You can argue the Pens' last actual shot at doing something was in the middle of Rutherford leaving and Hextall taking over.

 

[StickShift]

I’m going to preemptively say that it was not Jim Benning.

As terrible as he was for the Canucks—I think a lot of his decision making was influenced by owner Francesco Aquilini interfering with hockey operations.

Either trying to rush the rebuild (Eriksson, Beagle, Sutter, OEL, etc) or not allowing the team to spend when they needed to (the disastrous post-bubble off-season, or the general lack in investment in hockey ops that led to them running out of time a lot).

That’s not to say that Benning wasn’t out of his element—but it is to say that things were made so much worse by ownership.

Generally for any other GM listed in this thread, I think ownership is an important consideration to evaluate their performance by.

 

[Score08]

Don Sweeney

 

[AlainVigneaultsGum]

Benning and it isn't particularly close.

 

[norrisnick]

Milbury - I wish I could have skipped being a GM and gone straight to President of Hockey Operations. (speaking of Shanahan's hire by the Leafs)
Bobby Mac - So do the New York Islanders...

 

[sabremike]

Ed Johnston literally killed the Hartford Whalers with his monumental idiocy.

Nobody else is even close.

 

[DickSmehlik]

Tim Murray destroyed any hope of the Sabres being competitive after drafting Eichel. He then salted the earth by attempting to speed up their rebuild with disastrous results.

 

[Barrie22]

Wilson in his final 5 seasons with san jose

 

[ijuka]

The Oilers hat trick of Chiarelli, Holland, and now Stan Bowman has done immeasurable damage. They would have at least one Cup by now if the team was properly run, but here we are in Year 10 of Connor McDavid wondering if John Klingberg’s bionic hips and a goalie with a .902 save percentage are the solutions on defence and in goal. Just complete idiocy from a group of has beens every season.

Getting Ekholm was pretty good. It's not very fair to bring up Klingberg like this. He's depth and he's being paid like it.

As for goalie, keep in mind their goalie coach is a nepotism hire and the GM cannot get rid of him.

 

[1point21Gigawatts]

Tim Murray for Buffalo. He set the rebuild back five years and ultimately caused a new rebuild. Dude was just bad.

 

[kerrabria]

Ron Hextall spent Pittsburgh’s limited assets making the team worse. He closed their contention window, Dubas just locked it shut with with his trademark poor blueline construction and terrible goalie decisions.

 

[tarheelhockey]

The fact that Milbury has only been named twice is disappointing. That man had better be grateful that social media didn’t exist back then.

 

[Porter Stoutheart]

Barry Trotz is throwing his hat into the ring... early days, but if we circle back in a decade maybe he'll be a top contender...

 

[Oilslick941611]

Which GM in NHL history did the most damage collectively through trades, bad draft picks and overpaid free agent signings?

Chiarelli with his disastrous Oilers tenure including the Koskinen contract, Yakupov pick and infamous Hall trade?

Milbury trading Luongo and Chara? His overpayment of Yashin?

Those are 2 of the obvious ones. Any under the radar picks? Curious to hear who has done the most damage in your opinions.

im gonna to disagree with this, but probably not for reason you think. Chiarelli was an awful GM who made awful choices but he didn't damage the team. The Oilers did make the playoff under him for the first time since 2006 and after he left they went on a run where they got better every season culminating in a finals appearance.

The team didnt flounder after he left due to his choices. They just got better, I dont consider that all that damaging. To me a GM that damages a team leaves them in a sorry state and they have troubles after a new GM is hired. In that Vein McTavish and Tambellini were more damaging than Chiarelli ever was IMO.

 

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Marc Bergevin for Montreal

 

[Chainshot]

Which GM in NHL history did the most damage collectively through trades, bad draft picks and overpaid free agent signings?

Chiarelli with his disastrous Oilers tenure including the Koskinen contract, Yakupov pick and infamous Hall trade?

Milbury trading Luongo and Chara? His overpayment of Yashin?

Those are 2 of the obvious ones. Any under the radar picks? Curious to hear who has done the most damage in your opinions.

Jason Murray, err Tim Botterill has entered the chat.

Milbury though... that guy was tremendously bad.

 

[sabremike]

Jason Murray, err Tim Botterill has entered the chat.

Milbury though... that guy was tremendously bad.

Um, there's a reason I am sabremike and not whalermike.

 

[Chainshot]

Um, there's a reason I am sabremike and not whalermike.

Is that a vote for Rutherford then?

 

[McRpro]

Chiarelli with his disastrous Oilers tenure including the Koskinen contract, Yakupov pick and infamous Hall trade?

Yakupov was drafted 3 years before Chiapet was hired.

 

[Gizmo Tkachuk]

Mike Keenan set the Panthers back when he traded Luongo for Bertuzzi + spare parts and all his draft picks were bad. The best player he drafted was Michael Frolik and he only played 3 seasons with Florida.

 

[Bjornar Moxnes]

dorion. yes melnyk handcuffing him made things worse, but he's still awful.

 

[sabremike]

Is that a vote for Rutherford then?

Johnston took a team that was a beloved local institution and through his monumental stupidity completely destroyed that bond beyond repair along with that clown Rich Gordon.