nfreeman

Great stuff 3putt.

Awesome.

^^ Indeed. I think some of that free-and-easy British Columbia cannabis may be in order.

Whoa. How did PA hack your account? And what has Drury said specifically to give rise to this interpretation?

At that point in time, ownership --not the franchise -- deserved to be disdained. Drury was ready and willing to re-sign, and they jerked him around for an extended period, so, like pretty much anyone else would do, he left.

What is the basis for the concern that Kim P. will become a drunken racist? Or a bad sports owner?

This isn't a bad idea, but it doesn't seem like it would be compelling from Drury's perspective, as it would be pretty much the same job he has now.

Well, Drury has worked in the Rangers' FO for 2 years. His first year, he was Director of Player Development, and he was then promoted to AGM. The Rangers are a pretty well-run organization. It's probably too soon for him to get a GM job, so I think I'll withdraw my endorsement of GA's idea. But the reason to want Drury is that he knows what is required to win, he knows how to approach the game the right way, he cares deeply about winning and he's been successful at it for his entire career. If he'd been AGM for 4 years instead of 1, I'd be pounding the table for him.

Indeed it was, and I too would be fine with Lombardi/Drury as the brain trust.

I thought the 76K must've been an exaggeration for comic effect, and then I went back and checked the numbers. Yikes. Among the many, many reasons I am glad for the return of Liger is his gift for the gif.

I agree that PA was wrong, but to be fair, TP's words today are evidence that PA was wrong only if you believe TP's words.

This sounds right.

While TP might want better decorum, I have a hard time believing that this was all about decorum. I agree that TP seems fed up with the snakepit quality that the organization seems to have. But I also wouldn't be surprised if it extends to the players, and if Kaner is indeed shown the door. C'mon. I know you're down on TP, but do you really think he fired FGMTM purely for image reasons? i.e. that he's that shallow and foolish? The second bolded line kinda contradicts the first -- if the organization had gotten sloppy due to sloppiness at the top, isn't that inherently a real problem -- i.e. not just an image problem? I suppose that question presupposes that the sloppiness had manifested in the results -- but the results are freaking terrible, right? So is TP not justified in seeing a train wreck and being dissatisfied? Woo-hoo! Me too.

Well, he said build a stronger organization, top to bottom -- that likely means more than just a GM. Interesting. Yes -- it sounds like the team just seemed like a train wreck to him and that FGMTM and DDB were not keeping things shipshape. Not sure what the basis for this is. Separately: with all of the emphasis on character, I wonder whether RB might get shown the door at some point this summer?

As for the original post -- I think this construes in the worst possible light a series of decisions that were each reasonable at the time they were made. Keeping Darcy and Lindy and giving them more $$ to work with than OSP had provided -- totally reasonable in light of their prior success. Firing Darcy and Rolston when the team was DFL and getting booed off the ice at home -- who here didn't agree with that? Bringin PLF on as the overseer, with job #1 being to help find the new GM, and with Nolans to keep the coach's seat warm during an interim period -- reasonable. PLF wasn't just sitting on his couch when TP offered him the job. He was working for the NHL and knew a lot of people. The GM search seemed professionally conducted. Firing PLF -- if, as has been murmured, PLF really couldn't handle a work environment due to CTE -- reasonable. Firing Black -- does this even matter? Presumably he lost a power struggle with RB, which is hardly unusual. Firing DDB -- this seems like a no-brainer. Firing FGMTM -- this one is trickier. Certainly it's reasonable to think that he wasn't given quite enough rope. But he had 3 offseasons and 4 trade deadlines, and the team was undeniably terrible at both the NHL and AHL levels. The game they played was boring. The opponent inevitably controlled play. The locker room was fractured. The franchise player was clearly unhappy. And an entire season went by with GMTM doing zero to improve the situation. It wasn't crazy, or even knee-jerk, to want to move on.

While I said above that I can see it happening, I don't think Lindy will return as President/czar. I'd bet he wants to coach again.

This might be your worst post in the last 24 hours -- and that is a high bar indeed.

Are you joking? Did you read the article you linked? And are you aware that virtually no credible NFL observers think Whaley is any good? http://www.rotoworld.com/articles/nfl/71467/57/nfls-best-gms-2017?pg=3 (That, btw, is an example of linking to an article that actually says what the poster claims it says.)

Can someone explain the 12.5 line?

Holy mackerel. I can totally see this happening.

So you think that article "verifies" your statement? Vic Carucci rattling off a long list of DW mistakes, and then saying that he (Vic, not anyone else) thinks two good DW moves are the kind of moves that earn awards for GMs? Does DW perchance buy your unused Sabres tickets? I'm half-expecting this too.

Considered by whom? The PTR Delusion Club? He was also just ranked as the worst GM in the NFL by Rotoworld. As for your question -- that's quite an assumption. Should we also assume he sprouts wings and flies the Bills to their away games? It has occurred to me that TP saw Eichel's interview and put it into the growing pile of evidence that the wheels had fallen off.

This.

Like any GM, he gets credit for his good moves and criticism for his poor ones -- but most of all, he, like every GM, is accountable for W-L results, because his job is to produce a winning team. He's failed.

It's pretty well settled that drafting EJ was DW's call. Nice one, there. DW also had the rest of the 2013 offseason -- i.e. free agency deciding on the roster, etc.