Worst string of moves ever by a GM

[amnesiac]

Obviously Milbury takes the cake, but I didnt realise it was Craig Button that was responsible for all these horrible moves in the early 2000 as GM of Calgary:

Put Martin St Louis on waivers (picked up by TB)

Traded Marc Savard to ATL for Ruslan Zainullin

Traded JS Giguere for a 2nd (#43 Matt Pettinger) in order to protect Fred Brathwaite in the expansion draft.

Its not Milbury bad, but I would say hes pretty damn close given how good MSL and Savard ended out being.
I mean, cant say for certain, but safe to say they coulda/woulda won that Cup in 04. Question is would it have been Kipper or Giguere?

 

[NyQuil]

I might think Pierre Dorion would be a candidate but I will allow for the fact that I strongly believe that Melnyk pulls a lot of strings for the organization.

 

[Turin]

Obviously Milbury takes the cake, but I didnt realise it was Craig Button that was responsible for all these horrible moves in the early 2000 as GM of Calgary:

Put Martin St Louis on waivers (picked up by TB)

Traded Marc Savard to ATL for Ruslan Zainullin

Traded JS Giguere for a 2nd in order to protect Fred Brathwaite in the expansion draft.

Its not Milbury bad, but I would say hes pretty damn close given how good MSL and Savard ended out being.
I mean, cant say for certain, but safe to say they coulda/woulda won that Cup in 04. Question is would it have been Kipper or Giguere?

I’d say that’s Milbury level bad.

 

[JT Kreider]

It was Chiarelli in Edmonton

-Trading for Reinhart
-Trading Hall
-Signing Lucic

 

[A1LeafNation]

Obviously Milbury takes the cake, but I didnt realise it was Craig Button that was responsible for all these horrible moves in the early 2000 as GM of Calgary:

Put Martin St Louis on waivers (picked up by TB)

Traded Marc Savard to ATL for Ruslan Zainullin

Traded JS Giguere for a 2nd (#43 Matt Pettinger) in order to protect Fred Brathwaite in the expansion draft.

Its not Milbury bad, but I would say hes pretty damn close given how good MSL and Savard ended out being.
I mean, cant say for certain, but safe to say they coulda/woulda won that Cup in 04. Question is would it have been Kipper or Giguere?

And his prospect list is shit too.

 

[AvroArrow]

Craig Button is a joke, equally as bad of an Analyst

 

[amnesiac]

It was Chiarelli in Edmonton

-Trading for Reinhart
-Trading Hall
-Signing Lucic

was Reinhart for 16th and 33rd I believe? Couldve had one of: Barzal, Chabot, or Connor (they wouldve surely taken Chabot, though).... Also Aho went 35th!

 

[Darkwinter]

was Reinhart for 16th and 33rd I believe? Couldve had one of: Barzal, Chabot, or Connor (they wouldve surely taken Chabot, though).... Also Aho went 35th!

I could be wrong but we were never going to pick these players even if we kept the picks.

 

[General Disarray]

Milbury is probably the worst GM, but Chia had a legendary run of bad moves in such a short time that kept getting worst as the team got worst.

Reinhart trade, Hall trade, Lucid signing, Eberle to StroMe to Spooner, taking the bad Manning (Mcdavid enemy) off of somebody's hands, and then even right before finally getting fired he extended Koskinen for no reason.

 

[amnesiac]

I could be wrong but we were never going to pick these players even if we kept the picks.

maybe, but Chabot was the only Dman ranked around 16th. Next Dmen to go were: 25th (Juulsen), 26th (J.Larsson) and 29th (G.Carlsson)..... Couldve taken Samsonov acutally.

as for 33rd, yeah, who knows.

 

[Jannik Hansen]

Recent example:

Jim Benning's 2016 offseason. Traded McCann and a high 2nd for Gudbranson, signed Loui Eriksson to a 6x6, drafted Juolevi 5th overall.

 

[AfroThunder396]

Lou Lamoriello from 2010-2014 was just awful move after awful move. The Kovalchuk Saga and draft pick fallout being the most obvious, but there were so many other baffling decisions that completely crippled the franchise top to bottom in ways it is just now recovering from.

 

[Crow]

Milbury is probably the worst GM, but Chia had a legendary run of bad moves in such a short time that kept getting worst as the team got worst.

Reinhart trade, Hall trade, Lucid signing, Eberle to StroMe to Spooner, taking the bad Manning (Mcdavid enemy) off of somebody's hands, and then even right before finally getting fired he extended Koskinen for no reason.

I have to wonder if he was pressured into making more moves than he normally would have to be competitive in a time they shouldn’t have tried to be, or if he is just an idiot. That Manning trade was so bad, but it was due to injury. Maybe he felt he would lose his job if he didn’t do anything.

 

[4Twenty]

3 move combo made from late May 2016 to July 1st 2016.

1. 19 year old recent 24th overall pick who already made the nhl plus 33rd overall for Erik Gudbranson.

2. Drafted Olli Juolevi 5th overall

3. Signed Loui Eriksson to a 6 year $36m deal.

Guddy is getting scratched by Ottawa. Olli can’t make a bottom 10 lineup in his draft plus 5. And Eriksson doesn’t play and has one more season next year at $6m caphit.


Not sure how that didn’t lead to a firing.

 

[Stealth1616]

I could be wrong but we were never going to pick these players even if we kept the picks.

Then that’s also an awful reflection on our scouting

 

[amnesiac]

3 move combo made from late May 2016 to July 1st 2016.

1. 19 year old recent 24th overall pick who already made the nhl plus 33rd overall for Erik Gudbranson.

2. Drafted Olli Juolevi 5th overall

3. Signed Loui Eriksson to a 6 year $36m deal.

Guddy is getting scratched by Ottawa. Olli can’t make a bottom 10 lineup in his draft plus 5. And Eriksson doesn’t play and has one more season next year at $6m caphit.


Not sure how that didn’t lead to a firing.

its bad for sure, but drafting EP over Glass/Andersson/Mittlestadt was exceptional considering EP was ranked around 8th iirc.

Boeser 23rd was a steal too..... Jet Woo over Romanov, though, not so much (although Romanov was an off the board pick)

 

[Sparksrus3]

After you all make your case and declare the worst GM you can then award him second place to the champ Mike Milbury. So many bad deals

 

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Zboril
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Senyshyn

 

[boredmale]

I could be wrong but we were never going to pick these players even if we kept the picks.

The story goes if the Oilers kept the pick they would have taken Joel Eriksson Ek

 

[amnesiac]

After you all make your case and declare the worst GM you can then award him second place to the champ Mike Milbury. So many bad deals

yep

Luongo
Chara
Spezza (#2OA)
Palffy
Bertuzzi
O.Jokinen
McCabe

and ended up with who in the end? Yashin, Linden, T.Pyatt, Kvasha, Parrish, and some no names

I mean they wouldve had Palffy for more of his prime year after 99, then peak/prime Bertuzzi 01-05, prime Spezza circa 05-12, peak Jokinen 05-08... oh dont forget Chara and Luongo for about 15 great seasons!

INSANE

 

[The Great Mighty Poo]

Mike Milbury's parents for meeting, marrying, and mating, everything Mike Milbury has gone on to do in life since.

 

[boredmale]

and ended up with who in the end? Yashin, Linden, T.Pyatt, Kvasha, Parrish, and some no names

Parrish ended up getting Us Hamonic, who ended up getting us Dobson so we get the last laugh 20 years later

 

[MarkusKetterer]

Obviously Milbury takes the cake, but I didnt realise it was Craig Button that was responsible for all these horrible moves in the early 2000 as GM of Calgary:

Put Martin St Louis on waivers (picked up by TB)

Traded Marc Savard to ATL for Ruslan Zainullin

Traded JS Giguere for a 2nd (#43 Matt Pettinger) in order to protect Fred Brathwaite in the expansion draft.

Its not Milbury bad, but I would say hes pretty damn close given how good MSL and Savard ended out being.
I mean, cant say for certain, but safe to say they coulda/woulda won that Cup in 04. Question is would it have been Kipper or Giguere?

Take the Savard one with a grain of salt. Calgary was cheap then and that was basically a cap dump trade.

 

[amnesiac]

Parrish ended up getting Us Hamonic, who ended up getting us Dobson so we get the last laugh 20 years later

ha! well.... I think you owe Don Sweeney more of a thank you for not drafting Barzal, 3 times

 

[ziggyjoe212]

Mike Milbury's run as GM is so legendary it's still talked about 20+ years later. I'm not sure that the Isles organization still recovered.