Top 5 / Bottom 5 GMS

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Simple, name your top 5 and worst 5 gms in hockey

 

Top

1) Bowman

2) Holland

3) Yzerman

4) MacLellan (Caps)

5) Fletcher (Wild)

 

 

Bottom

1) Sakic

2) Benning

3) Gorton

4) Armstrong

5) Chiareli / Brian Murray

 

[Randall Flagg]

Top:
1.) Stan Bowman

2.) Doug Wilson

3.) Steve Yzerman

4.) Dean Lombardi

5.) David Poile

 

Bottom:
1.) Benning

2.) Sakic

3.) Bergevin

4.) Tim Murray

5.) George McPhee (those Caps defenses...Forsberg for Erat)

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Great call on Wilson, forgot about him. Same with Bergevin

 

I do not think Lombardi is a good gm. I think he got an amazing head coach ad 3-4 players. The Brown contract and Gaborik resigning are some terrible moves by him. Then again, that's only two moves. But, Brown's contract is just deplorable 

[Randall Flagg]

Great call on Wilson, forgot about him. Same with Bergevin

 

I do not think Lombardi is a good gm. I think he got an amazing head coach ad 3-4 players. The Brown contract and Gaborik resigning are some terrible moves by him. Then again, that's only two moves. But, Brown's contract is just deplorable 

He hasn't been great of late, but his moves to build those two cup teams were superb, and any GM that wins us our first 2 cups in 3 years and takes us to an ECF in between while having the stones to make trades like Carter/Richards/Gaborik to help the runs will instantly the best GM in Sabres history. 

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He hasn't been great of late, but his moves to build those two cup teams were superb, and any GM that wins us our first 2 cups in 3 years and takes us to an ECF in between while having the stones to make trades like Carter/Richards/Gaborik to help the runs will instantly the best GM in Sabres history. 

Very true. He did what was necessary to win a Cup. He also held onto prospects like Toffoli. How has his drafting been though? I haven't seen a good King's prospect in a long time

 

Interesting that you didn't include Holland in your top 5. He seemed like a lock to me

[Randall Flagg]

Very true. He did what was necessary to win a Cup. He also held onto prospects like Toffoli. How has his drafting been though? I haven't seen a good King's prospect in a long time

 

Interesting that you didn't include Holland in your top 5. He seemed like a lock to me

Holland has been miserably bad for the last 7 years or so, according to Red Wings fans. The ones I know desperately want to get rid of him. He used to be great too though. 

Dean's drafting isn't great, but then again his picks have all been traded or later in rounds. None of the guys are perfect that's for sure

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Holland has been miserably bad for the last 7 years or so, according to Red Wings fans. The ones I know desperately want to get rid of him. He used to be great too though. 

Dean's drafting isn't great, but then again his picks have all been traded or later in rounds. None of the guys are perfect that's for sure

I feel like Holland's problem was trying to desperately hang onto an old core. But he's drafted great talent to replace them, and seems to have finally accepted that. It's hard for me to negate almost 2 decades of success for someone like Poile

[Jsixspd]

Hard to argue against Bowman being at the top of any list.  What he's accomplished in his tenure with the Blackhawks is amazing. He's even NAMED after the damn Stanley Cup - there's some weird synchronicity stuff right there.  

He starts in July 2009; and just a few months later makes a fellow named Joe Quenneville the 'Hawks coach.  That's not a bad move, right there. 

What's sad  - Stan lived in Buffalo and went to Canisius.  If only we'd ended up with HIM in the front office.   Sigh!