gradin123 Posted April 16, 2012 Author Share Posted April 16, 2012 How is Malhotra not there under the epic fail category? 2.5m faceoff guy who has hands of stone, liability 5 on 5.. but apparently, he's good in the locker room so i guess that makes up for it. I dont care if he's tops in faceoffs, a 4th liner shouldnt be making that money unless his name is Chris Neil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peanutflower Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 Gillis getting the executive of the year last season was the biggest joke I have ever seen. Lets recap Gillis's major contributuons so far. Good -Trading for Ehrhoff. -Signing of Hamhuis. -Trading for Higgins and LaPierre -Re-Signing of Burrows at a discount. -Signing of Tanev Negative -Re-Signing of Luongo to longterm contract after his first playoff meltdown against Chicago -Trading Of Michael Grabner (and hence commitment to Mason Raymond) and a first round Pick(Howden) for a Ballard and his bad contract -Trading for David Booth and his bad contract -Trading Cody Hodgson/Sulzer for Zack Kassian/Grags. -Signing of Marco Sturm -Not attempting to re-sign Willie Mitchell who you almost certainly would have re-signed here at a discount if the Canucks showed any interest in him. -not one of his draft picks is playing in the NHL besides Cody Hodgson. -signing of Mats Sundin -trading a 2nd round pick for Steve Bernier -trading a 3rd round pick for Andrew Alberts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gradin123 Posted April 16, 2012 Author Share Posted April 16, 2012 wasn't he the coach... or was he both the coach and GM can't remember Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuckin_futz Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 How is Malhotra not there under the epic fail category? 2.5m faceoff guy who has hands of stone, liability 5 on 5.. but apparently, he's good in the locker room so i guess that makes up for it. I dont care if he's tops in faceoffs, a 4th liner shouldnt be making that money unless his name is Chris Neil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ace_blazer Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 Every year I felt like this team was just getting better and better. The results supported this. And now? For some reason this year just felt like a step backwards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gradin123 Posted April 16, 2012 Author Share Posted April 16, 2012 I totally agree with him. Using the "hindsight" blast shows that your opinion doesn't even matter. It's Gillis' job to make good choices to make the team better. When you can count the good on one hand, and the bad is in double digits, there may be an issue to say the least. Although I don't agree with some of what he deemed bad, (ie. Booth) GM's get fired for having bad "hindsight". How many bad "hindsight" moves had Detroit made? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tits J. McGee Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 Some thoughts without reading all the posts: -Sundin wasn't a bad move. Gillis had the cap space, there wasn't many great free agents that year. He didn't want to trade away assets, so he basically offered up all the cap space he had left to make it a deal Sundin couldn't refuse. Pretty simple really. And then some was left on the table. Gillis could have added another player at the deadline. -I miss Sammuelson. He seemed to "get" the playoffs... Maybe we need to snipe ex-detroit players. -Torres. This I don't get. Gillis talks about adding toughness. Torres was the toughest guy on our roster last year. He WAS that perfect guy. Played like a pit bull/ human wrecking ball and SCORED GOALS. Not like the other guys we acquire that only play 5 mins. He actually played. I don't usually like guys that ride that line of dirty, but he played his role to a key. And gillis let him walk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tortorella's Rant Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 How is Malhotra not there under the epic fail category? 2.5m faceoff guy who has hands of stone, liability 5 on 5.. but apparently, he's good in the locker room so i guess that makes up for it. I dont care if he's tops in faceoffs, a 4th liner shouldnt be making that money unless his name is Chris Neil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bananas Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 BAD: AV /thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prana16 Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 Grabner - at the time wouldn't have had the chances to play top-six role like he did with Islanders Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trebreh Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 I didn't like this deal for one massive reason: HE HAS TWO PLAYOFF GOALS and ZERO ASSISTS in 32 games. But idiots will have you believe that it's not necessary for depth players to chip in from time to time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkstar Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 Definitely the most overrated Canucks GM of all-time. If the Canucks give him another shot in the offseason, he better make it count. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trebreh Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 I think it's actually 2.75m. I think this is the last year of his deal. He won't be back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bureNGO Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 We would've won the cup if I was the GM. Gillis has a lot of questionable moves like ballard, luongo, kassian, raymond. This team is soft as pudding, no toughness. My roster would've been like this, a team that would actually have each others back. It's all about size and toughness in todays nhl. Sedin-Sedin-Burrows Simmonds-Kesler-Morrow Higgins-Neil-Brouwer Hansen-Moen-Asham Ex. Rupp, Kostopolous Weber-Hamhuis Bieska-Mitchell Gil-Sutton Rome Schneider Clemmensen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gradin123 Posted April 16, 2012 Author Share Posted April 16, 2012 Why? bad coaching and player management is why. we traded away a goal scorer (notice how we are having trouble scoring goals) for a D (whom i like) that the coach won't play regularly or in key situations. Well thats kind of the point isn't it. why in the hell did they sign sturm over say torres or giving shirokov a chance. This team has trouble scoring in games that matter yet in the last three years we've shipped out all of our offensive prospects (two calder candidates)... grabner, shirokov and hodgson for virtually nothing. Neither of those three trades has helped this team. even samuelson, booth is just not getting it done for 4.5 million. 4.5 million for ballard who doesn't play. I was big on team MG but his moves since last offseason to this trade deadline have all been horrible. not one has turned out. With hodgson being the worst.. .stuck behind two star centers eh??? which two "stars" would that be? Sedins got shut down last year, kesler is not a 40 goal guy yet instead of bolstering our offense or defense we ship out prospects for nothing. When we see next year that kesler still only gets 20 goals and the twins begin to decline in points and effectiveness (already not that effective when it matters) we'll see that an up and coming center wouldn't have needed to wait for five years to get his shot. We are stuck with booth who has turned out to be raymond but without the falling down. We have no good assets left to trade other than cory yet we should be keeping him rather than the 32 year old that he has better numbers than. MG better hope that he can dump a contract or two and that atleast one top 6 and/or one top d free agent wants to sign here. We have no prospect depth anymore and only a goalie to trade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NUCKS4CUP 28 Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 We would've won the cup if I was the GM. Gillis has a lot of questionable moves like ballard, luongo, kassian, raymond. This team is soft as pudding, no toughness. My roster would've been like this, a team that would actually have each others back. It's all about size and toughness in todays nhl. Sedin-Sedin-Burrows Simmonds-Kesler-Morrow Higgins-Neil-Brouwer Hansen-Moen-Asham Ex. Rupp, Kostopolous Weber-Hamhuis Bieska-Mitchell Gil-Sutton Rome Schneider Clemmensen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr X Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 Grabner - at the time wouldn't have had the chances to play top-six role like he did with Islanders Sundin - bad signing? He made our core guys better players and the players they are today Ballard - it may look bad now, but at the time our D was extremely weak, this was before Hamhuis signing Booth - you call this a negative? We completely ripped off Florida. We got rid of a terrible signing in Sturm Mitchell - technically we tried to sign him, he wanted more. And if we did re-sign him, Hamhuis wouldn't be here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie.Sheen Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 Lol @ this guy who thinks he knows how to be a GM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salmonberries Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 Gillis getting the executive of the year last season was the biggest joke I have ever seen. Lets recap Gillis's major contributuons so far. Good -Trading for Ehrhoff. -Signing of Hamhuis. -Trading for Higgins and LaPierre -Re-Signing of Burrows at a discount. -Signing of Tanev Negative -Re-Signing of Luongo to longterm contract after his first playoff meltdown against Chicago -Trading Of Michael Grabner (and hence commitment to Mason Raymond) and a first round Pick(Howden) for a Ballard and his bad contract -Trading for David Booth and his bad contract -Trading Cody Hodgson/Sulzer for Zack Kassian/Grags. -Signing of Marco Sturm -Not attempting to re-sign Willie Mitchell who you almost certainly would have re-signed here at a discount if the Canucks showed any interest in him. -not one of his draft picks is playing in the NHL besides Cody Hodgson. -signing of Mats Sundin -trading a 2nd round pick for Steve Bernier -trading a 3rd round pick for Andrew Alberts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Columbo Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 If Sundin had accepted that original 2-year $20-million deal, our team would be screwed. The Sedins would be playing in Toronto or New York right now. That was definitely the biggest mistake he almost made. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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