Who Would You Actually Want as the Next Gm
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Agreed get me someone grim a successful organization. Winnipeg or Dallas come to mind. I want someone that has a good track record with drafting a developing prospects.
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No idea if I'm being honest- but from afar someone young, and hungry from the Tampa/Florida/Carolina organizations that would be willing to cut their teeth on Long Island sounds good to me...
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Mackenzie is a hack!
This would be a demotion for her, I imagine. I'm not quite sure how you'd want to go from owning a multi-million dollar business to being an NHL GM and working for another rich person.
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Brett Peterson - Florida Assistant GM
Worked in a hockey media group and as an NHL player agent, played at BC and in the AHL. Was also selected as the 2024 USMNT GM.
Worked in a hockey media group and as an NHL player agent, played at BC and in the AHL. Was also selected as the 2024 USMNT GM.
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Imagine Megan Chayka becoming the GM and hiring Jessica Campbell (Seattle Assistant Coach) as the bench boss?
A portion of the hockey community would go absolutely berserk even though GM’s have been hiring from the same old boys club for decades without anyone batting an eye.
When the uno reverse card is drawn it will suddently become a problem.
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I think the problem is more along the lines of Campbell being hired as the bench boss 100% is not hiring the top talent available for the position. She has not even coached in the NHL for a full year yet.
Chayka has a lengthy history of some awesome data analytics but has she ever even worked for a franchise before? Negotiated a trade? Has an idea in place for a playing style? What about negotiating with agents?
I'd be leery of hiring anyone as GM with zero experience or a head coach with one year of experience in the NHL as an assistant coach for a team who missed the playoffs.
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Oh 100% agree but just the thought of the hypothetical is quite funny to me.
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Imagine that. A person that runs a data company with zero nhl management experience and an assistant coach with less than one year experience behind the bench with a team that just fired their veteran coach after one season that missed the playoffs.
Good luck to the team that does that.
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Funny you bring this up because this thought came directly to my mind. This is not to take away from her accomplishments. She has obviously built something up that the entire leagues wants.
Just that her accomplishments include zero actual NHL experience and this is not going to be a direct correlation to NHL success.
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If you want Darche, are you also inclined to grab Holland given Darche has never been a GM?
Also in that video, brisbous or whatever his name is promised Darche that role. I wonder if Julien moves up and Darche takes over soon.
Also in that video, brisbous or whatever his name is promised Darche that role. I wonder if Julien moves up and Darche takes over soon.
Far he would be my #1 target by far. Of all the asst gms that I’d want for our gm spot, he has the most credibility and it’s seems he’s been ready for a better job for a while. Hopefully the Lightning get knocked out soon so we can start negotiating with him.
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I could see BriseBois pulling a Sakic and moving upstairs to keep management together.
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Darche seems to be on everyone's list. He joined TBL in 2019. They won the Cup in 2020 and 2021. So, did he really have anything to do with building the Cup winning teams? And how have TBL's moves in the past few years looked? He might be great, but where's the evidence?
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I don’t see it, Yzerman inherited 2 franchise players and an all star, he took the team to the next level, Briabois made the moves to get the team over the top, but they’ve been playing Trader Vic’s to continue to compete.
Unless Darche was the loudest voice in ‘don’t sign Stamkos’ debate, the work was done before he arrived. And to your point, it’s been a bit meh the past several years. They even acquired Duke Bure too and promptly walked away, so maybe there’s a match there.
