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He got gifted the core by smarter GM's and then proceeded to destroy it with numerous stupid trades to go along with the bad drafting, largely because he relied on analytics dweebs instead of people qualified to assess hockey players. Gillis was easily the worst GM in the history of the franchise and simply was not qualified for any job in hockey ops. I didn't mind Nonis, but understand that some took issue with a few of his moves. Bottom line is that Burke is the last GM that was universally respected in Vancouver.
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[Trade] Tsn has acquired Bruce Boudreau from the Canucks
King Heffy replied to Mando27's topic in Trades, Rumours, Signings
Can't say I blame him; after Rutherford showed the world that he's a worthless piece of trash, it's pretty reasonable to expect Boudreau to want to see him fail. Just because Bruce is enough of a professional to not say anything bad doesn't mean he has any respect for that senile parasite. -
OEL is a far better player than Rielly and it's not even close. He's overpaid by about two million. Rielly would still be overpaid at league minimum; he's worse than useless and always will be unless he stops disgracing his team with his atrocious play in his own zone. Rielly would probably be a decent forward, but there's no excuse for allowing blueliners to play like he does defensively.
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McDavid and the last quarter century
King Heffy replied to Baratheon's topic in General Hockey Discussion
McDavid will probably win a gold medal at the next summer Olympics for his diving. All of those guys would be top 4 in Edmonton. Even after the trade for a second NHLer, the Oilers blueline is a contender for the worst in the history of the league. -
But you also don't win cups with defencemen who can't play defence. Guys like Rielly just get exposed in the playoffs by skilled coaching and hurt their team far much in their own zone to be anything more than a complete liability. Just because some teams think playing like this is acceptable does not mean it is a good idea. You can't provide offence when you're fishing the puck out of your own net because you never learned how to play in the defensive zone without embarrassing yourself. The position is called defence for a reason and there is a minimum standard that needs to be acceptable in order to belong on an actual NHL team.