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  1. It would be absolutely stupid to quit the mandates and diligence now before we see what happens with Omicron. Pure impatience from people. Why on earth would we not see through the next couple months when we've invested 2+ years already? This isn't the kind of decision you just decide, 'heck why not it's been long enough'. People's lives are at stake.
  2. And the people with education, experience, and paid jobs are doing just that. If some of the other adults wanted to do that they should have put in some effort and time years ago when necessary, before it became an issue. Unfortunately for some but thankfully for many timmy2837 and lucky_nucker won't get the chance to dictate public health orders to the rest of us.
  3. Okay bud time to: A. Quit your job B. Get divorced C. Sell your kids If you start with A and C, B will follow naturally.
  4. Please no he'll just suck at the NHL level. Real hockey players only. That bum is 27 already it would take him two years and another baby clause to get him up to speed. He had his chance. Nyet.
  5. He can chat up all the customers like a between the boards segment behind the glass with a circle in it right beside popcorn and hotdogs.
  6. Ummm cause Benning, duh! Sorry, Green this time. My bad. I wonder how long we have to do this for. Probably the next GM and coach I'm guessing.
  7. How big is a scouting department 15-25 people? We're talking about 1 person going from one huge department to another overnight, and in another position yet. It's nearly impossible to tell without inside knowledge or waiting to see what that will mean going forward. It's not like you can just go shopping at the good-great Director of Scouting store and a get a guy that's going to single-handedly pick 26% better than the next guy. All people that work in hockey have been part of groups with unsuccessful parts to the organization. It's definitely not cut and dry.
  8. I did want to mention/remind people he's actually been hired as the GM, not the Director of Amateur Scouting. We don't know who that will be or how much of Vancouver's scouting staff will be retained. We also don't know how involved he'll be in actually selecting the players either. He'll be busy with a lot of other stuff too.
  9. Nicely said Sid. Completely different situations and sometimes people don't realize how much of a crap shoot they are comparatively. One or two picks hit and your results are dramatically better. Most picks don't make it and a great percentage are top 50 or higher. Correct me if I'm wrong but aren't the scouts (as compared to Director) more heavily relied on later in the draft as well?
  10. Lol at this debate. We're lacking about 95% of the total information needed to make an informed decision on this matter. @The Lock wins in a landslide.
  11. This is exactly it in a nutshell. How can anyone be overly critical when they literally know next to nothing about how Allvin fit into the draft team? Did he manage it directly, was he hands on, hands off, did he have autonomy, was the scouting system set out in his vision, was he over-ruled, given directives, etc.? Pretending one can see that through a couple tweets and google searches is pretty outlandish. For all we know Allvin has a completely different operational path from the one the Penguins ran and in addition probably has a department made up of 90% different people. I'm sure CDC isn't the only one that can google "penguins draft record'? One would have to think JR has also briefly (or spent 300 hours) reviewing the draft processes and team moving forward.
  12. But hey, just think how great you'll feel in 10 years when you're right and the Canucks just absolutely blow baby chunks.
  13. Lol, acting like they hang out at the arcade or they're in the same laser tag league or something. I'm guessing the only reason they know each other is through hockey and both are extremely professional. I'm sure he picked who he thought would do the job over doing Patrick a solid so they can laugh about it while fishing.
  14. Maybe he meant not going with a well known former GM and more of a committee approach. That's funny though.
  15. I agree and also note the Penguins last 5 draft years. https://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/draft/teams/dr00007475.html They've only had one player Calen Addison play games(12). It's a reminder that Pittsburgh is constantly filling there roster in other ways and they have had little focus or need for drafting recently. I would imagine this affects not only player development but the types of players drafted as well. Maybe more longshot picks? How much effort did they even put into scouting? Not to make excuses this hasn't looked great but check out from 2012 to 2015 they actually did not bad getting Olli Matta, Teddy Blueger, Oskar Sundqvist, Matt Murray, Tristan Jarry, Jake Guentzel, Kasperi Kapanen, and Daniel Sprong. They whiffed on Pouliot but we can appreciate how that can happen. Anyways basically zero picks in the top 50 except Kapanen, and Matta, and only an average of about 5 picks per year. Most NHL'ers come from rounds 1 and sometimes 2. So it's not all that bad there. Only one first rounder in the last 7 years. Like you I would hope someone with some amateur drafting pedigree is hired in addition but how much is drafting success based on the manager and how much is on the scouts themselves? I'm personally guessing our drafting approach and department will be completely different then the Penguins in quality and set-up.
  16. Yeah optimism is fine in all walks of life. It's the people who try too hard to make negative claims like he's poor at drafting yet they have no real clue as to exactly which if any players he was responsible for or if he merely looked after the people involved, or what he even did on a day to day basis. Scouting departments are huge and so are a Gm/Agm's responsibilities. Similarly some people think the GM job or the capologists job is to come in the office everyday and count up to $82.5 over (EA hockey) and over again and a hundred different ways from Sunday. Let's be honest how many people know exactly what the GM or AGM does for 60-80 hours a week for any one organization? Like basically no one on this site is qualified to answer that. How many people actually know what other people do on a day to day basis, even in a regular job? It would be like me pretending I know how to procure medical equipment for hospitals or something just because I know one clever guy on the internet. The only reason I mentioned it is because I saw a handful of posters making absolute claims last night about things they can't possibly know. You would recognize the posters ... they like to criticize heavily but demonstrate often they don't know what they're talking about. It's one thing to comment on a players goal scoring ability when you watch them 50 times a year. Pretty hard to evaluate a GM when you never see them at work. I'm 97.5% sure these posters didn't even know who Allvin was last month and now they're experts on him having supposedly kept tabs on the Penguins middling front office staff for the past 15 years. I've given up trying to be overly critical of management groups as it's a massive beast. As soon as their plan diverts from a regular persons it's like comparing apples and oranges without seeing what's in the boxes. From where I sit all we can do is have faith this group is going to do good things for this team moving forward, and hopefully bring us a cup. Anyone complaining at this point is really out to lunch. I mean he's been on the job for like 12 hours now, but it's never too early for CDC to lay the groundwork. lol
  17. This place just makes me sit back and laugh sometimes. 95% of the people here know more about rocket science or malaria than they know about this management group, Allvin included. Which is literally nothing. The internet giveth ... and most of it is crap. In reality we have no clue what this will look like, who'll be responsible for what, what they've done in the past, what there current agenda is, who will be responsible for drafting, or what they had for breakfast. The only thing we do know is Miller will be traded within two weeks. Ha ha I joke, I joke!
  18. Typical. These people have no clue at all about him. Guarantee that guy didn't even know who he was 2 months ago.
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