Yahoo ranks the GMs- We're #16!!!

[Lt Dan]

NHL Power Rankings: Ranking the NHL general managers

16. Rob Blake, Los Angeles Kings. He inherited a team on the decline and is in the process of tearing it all down. The Kings have one of the league’s best farm systems and a loaded talent pool to build from. There is a foundation being built here, even if it takes time to see it pay off.

Click to read more...

 

[Legionnaire]

Woooooooo!

 

[Telos]

THG did this a couple of days ago too:

 

[SufferingSelfCreated]

NHL Power Rankings: Ranking the NHL general managers

So they rank Blake at 16 even after mentioning he inherited a mess,and also point out that he's amassed potentially great young talent. Sounds like some East Coast bias, or something similar going on here......

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

How does Doug Wilson rank ahead when everything listed about him is negative? Holland at 13 after he gave up assets to get Athanasiou and lost him for nothing, and Armstrong just lost his #1 defenseman and replaced him with Krug, who is no Pietrangelo.

 

[Schrute farms]

Well even though the prospect pool build has been extremely impressive, it’s still an unknown. So until these guys start making their mark in the nhl and producing, it is fair to say GM wise it’s still TBD. Ultimately it’s about wins/losses for the big team. We still suck in that case. But 2-5 years from now this could/should drastically change.

 

[Lt Dan]

So they rank Blake at 16 even after mentioning he inherited a mess,and also point out that he's amassed potentially great young talent. Sounds like some East Coast bias, or something similar going on here......

I will agree that he could be above a few other GMs on that list, remember that this is a team that finished 4th to last

 

[KINGS17]

NHL Power Rankings: Ranking the NHL general managers

Building the farm and a prospect list is the easy part.

Developing the prospects and making trades to move from being a playoff team into contention is where the degree of difficulty increases significantly.

 

[Bandit]

Wilson's position on that list is laughable, so is Dumbasss's.

 

[Matt13]

We retired that number.

 

[johnjm22]

Building the farm and a prospect list is the easy part.

Then why are so few teams able to do it?

 

[KINGS17]

Then why are so few teams able to do it?

A lot of teams get a turn at the top of the prospect's ranking list.

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

Building the farm and a prospect list is the easy part.

Developing the prospects and making trades to move from being a playoff team into contention is where the degree of difficulty increases significantly.

Kind of agree but I'd also add that Blake managed salaries/cap masterfully to put us in a GREAT position right now and even after misassessing the roster in his first time in office. He doesn't subscribe at all to sunk cost fallacy. He's done what he's done in a shorter timeframe due to that first mistaken year.

 

[Basilisk]

I've been following this team since 1986. Blake is, by far, the luckiest GM we've had in that span. Unfortunately, luck doesn't equate to "good".

 

[KINGS17]

Kind of agree but I'd also add that Blake managed salaries/cap masterfully to put us in a GREAT position right now and even after misassessing the roster in his first time in office. He doesn't subscribe at all to sunk cost fallacy. He's done what he's done in a shorter timeframe due to that first mistaken year.

I tend to agree. Up to this point in his tenure Blake appears to be ahead of where Dean was going into 2009.

 

[deeshamrock]

How does Doug Wilson rank ahead when everything listed about him is negative? Holland at 13 after he gave up assets to get Athanasiou and lost him for nothing, and Armstrong just lost his #1 defenseman and replaced him with Krug, who is no Pietrangelo.

They explained that in the article, it's based on career acheivements, not just recent. It was stated that a few years ago, he'd be top 5 but he's dropped due to questionable decisions.
Same reason Blake isn't higher, not enough track record yet.

 

[rajuabju]

Silly to have Blake at 16. But its Yahoo. So who cares.

 

[bland]

Then why are so few teams able to do it?

You have to accept that you have no choice but to do so. Most teams are in a state of transition, up or down to varying degrees, but few have had as poor a run as the Kings have recently, so its their turn to be on the rise.

Its pretty good for Blake to be in the middle of the pack, seeing as he has yet to win a playoff game and made some pretty big errors in judgement over his first two years. Everything since has been sound decision making, and he has done well doing what he had no choice but doing with the organization. Give him a couple of years before we can expect him to be praised.

 

[Lt Dan]

I've been following this team since 1986. Blake is, by far, the luckiest GM we've had in that span. Unfortunately, luck doesn't equate to "good".

 

[Stimpythecat]

It's one thing to put the team in a position to succeed. It's another to actually do it.

Blake has put the kings in a very good position to succeed. The on ice results now need to happen. I am good with Blake at #16 for putting the kings in that position to succeed. To go higher, it would require results.

 

[Basilisk]

It's one thing to put the team in a position to succeed. It's another to actually do it.

Maybe I flunked my logic course, but those two sentences don't make any sense to me. In fact, it's sounding like something Yogi Berra would have said, i.e., "when you come to a fork in the road, take it".

 

[Stimpythecat]

they have all the pieces in place to succeed at some point but no results yet.