Remember Aquilini said in the press the Poho and GM must have good or past working relations. The Poho a older guy prolly learned this from appointing the younger Linden and older Benning as gm
I want
Poho: McPhee (connection with Bruce or Lombardi (connection with Futa)
Gm: Futa (connection with Lombardi)
All three from past or current winning org. Vegas and Kings.
Don't want any from other trainwrecks that would bring nothing to the table eg. montreal
Bruce was a good hire a guy with passion for the game that carries over to the players.
Green was an aloof coach that thought he was too cool for school and acted as if he won the champions in ahl and nhl. Complete incompetent lazy coach and that why I also lay blame on JB for keeping him so long.
Yes under Gillis we never found a later 1st round gem or a later round gem no one graduated from the draft to becoming NHLers either for our team or another team.
If we want more Jensens Gaunces Sauves Hogdsons Ellingtons please get Gillis.
He was an outcast in the GM community. No one wanted to deal with him, refs had bias against us also, rest of Canada hated us.
GET SOMEONE NEW stop recycling the past cr*p.
McPhee rumors are there plus he had past working relationship with Bruce for Caps.
Lombardi that made the Kings champions but not sure if he wants to work for Aqua.
Theres Futa AGM for Lombardi for the Kings back then. Canucks were interested in him in the past.
Agree Jensen Gaunce Sauve the mighty Hodgson wow no thanks. If Gilly comes back he will bring back the old scouting group and we will be repeating our horrible drafting. At least JB drafts were able to be Nhlers.
Gillis was decent at filling the lineup but handcuffed the team with ntc and became too loyal to the players rarely traded them or was able to due to team gms not liking him before their value went down. Plus horrible horrible drafter Hodgson Gaunce Jensen ?? LOL. Come one. NO THANKS.
Benning was good at drafting thats it but lacked the ability to fill the lineup to build an effective team.
If we can find someone new such as McPhee Lombardi Futa with both abilities would be great.
My choices McPhee, Lombardi, Futa
We need guys that come from winning organizations no to Bergevin or Mellanby they come from another train wreck and will bring another loser mentality.
Studies show i read somewhere when red and blue face off red wins most of the time. Black jerseys has a aggressive effect/impression, therefore teams with black jerseys are penalized more by refs. This research has been done across various team sports.