GM/Coach Rankings

I’ll leave the grading alone, because it varies depending on a lot of things, especially when you combine GM/Coach grades together. So here are the article mistakes I found:

-"Holmgren has set up the franchise down the future with Sean Couturier, Brayden Schenn and 23-year-old Hart Trophy candidate Claude Giroux." Too early to say any of them besides Giroux are "key impact players". You can guess, but you can’t say the future is set-up 100% given 2 question marks. Flyers.

-"Wilson has done an outstanding job of drafting good, young forwards." Pavelski, Couture, and Setoguchi(2 of them drated in the top 9 overall). That is it. His best drafting forward accomplishment besides that so far is Jamie Mcginn, a 12min/gm mediocre bottom 6er. I wouldn’t call that outstanding forward drafting. There are a number of other gm’s deserving of that statement ahead of Wilson. Sharks

-"Now, the Blueshirts have a solid defensive corps with Dan Girardi, Marc Staal and Michael Del Zotto." How about McDonagh filling in somewhat spectacularly on top pair minutes with Staal hurt? Rangers.

-"The organization has a great captain in Shane Doan." This fact has nothing to do with the current GM or coach. Doan was here and signed and established before either were here. Coyotes.

-"Despite losing Danny Briere, Brian Campbell and Chris Drury to free agency, the organization has remained competitive." Depends on your definition of competitive. Do you think making the playoffs 2 out of 4yrs is being competitive? They were at the top of the East before that, so it’s hard to say a downfall from a top 2 team in the east to an overall top 10 team in the east as doing a good job of asset management by the Sabres GM.

-"Under Nieuwendyk, Dallas has transitioned from the Mike Modano-Marty Turco era to a gritty, scrappy team under first-year coach Gulutzan" Since Nieuwendyk became GM in 09. He inherited the gritty scrappy Ott, Neal, Morrow, Benn, Ribeiro, Robidas, Fistric, Barch, and he brought in Nystrom/Fiddler. I wouldn’t say he transitioned the team that way, more like he plays the cards he was dealt and continued the team style that he was given. Stars.

-"I believe the decision to reward Dwayne Roloson with one more year instead of pursuing a free-agent goaltender crippled Tampa this season." No. Not addressing the defense correctly crippled Tampa Bay this year. Yes, they overplayed Roloson, and should have been starting Garon more, but having a top 7 defense that includes Brewer, MAB, Brett Clark, Gilroy, and Gervais is kind of asking for problems. They are all fairly sketchy in their own zone and have brain farts aplenty. Lightning.

-"Yet, for some reason they can’t score, ranking dead last in offense." Kings/They were 25th in scoring last year, so that really wasn’t a strong suit going into the season. I’ll explain continuously: they got rid of 23goalscorer Ryan Smyth in the offseason, Penner has sucked offensively since he got there, Gagne has missed 1/3 of the season so far, and Richards has actually helped=on the verge for 28goals before he got hurt. Them having some scoring difficulties this year is actually expected if you did your HW on the Kings and actually look at the team on paper. Kings.

-"MacLean, an assistant under Babcock in Detroit, has helped revive Jason Spezza’s career." Before Maclean=Spezza 30goal/75pts player. After Maclean=Spezza 30goal/75pts player. Maclean had honestly zero effect on Spezza’s numbers, who was always a great forward and never really a slumping one. Senators.

-"Their long-term contracts are locked up in guys who haven’t been difference makers, most notably Alex Tanguay and Jay Bouwmeester." Bouwmeester is a top 30 d-man in the NHL, but Tanguay has been up and down his whole career and is now gonna age, stupid move extending tanguay. Is Bouwmeester overpaid? Yes, but by all means he is a difference making D-man, any top 30 NHL d-man would be. Bouwmeester is a legit top pairing nhl d-man, one of the best defensive d-men in the NHL and a good(but not great) offensive d-man. It’s a huge disgrace to him to not call him a difference maker. Flames.

-"He pulled the trigger on a big trade, landing Dany Heatley, but he doesn’t provide the leadership this team desperately needs." The Wild recently have in the recent past mostly been a borderline playoff team, and "desperate for leadership" isn’t the reason why. It’s their offense, their D has been fairly decent, but they have been a sub-par offensive team for a while. Fix the offense and you can turn the team around, and looking at how the team is set-up right now, they have to make a number of changes to fix that team on its way to a real stanley cup contender offensively. Wild.

-"Despite the presence of Ryan Smyth, the Oilers simply don’t have the right mix of youth and veteran leadership." DEFENSE DEFENSE DEFENSE the Oilers lack. Aside from the fact they are obviously still in the early parts of a rebuild, if the back to back 1st overall picks/worst team in the league facts didn’t tell you that. Not a mix of youth and vets at all. The offense looks like it’s on it’s way to being more than solid in a few years, but the defense is barren of high-end D prospects to help fix that issue/weakness. That could be solved by picking up a top 4 d-man or 2, but at this stage in the rebuild, the oilers should stay pat. Oilers.

-"Their top line of John Tavares, Matt Moulson and Michael Grabner can strike at any time." Top lines have been JT/MM/PAP or JT/MM/Okposo. Grabs was very briefly experimented with on the top line, but it was never something that lasted worth mentioning.

-"Outside of goaltender Carey Price and perhaps P.K. Subban, there are very few building blocks within the Canadiens’ organization." Just Price and Subban? Wrong. Pacioretty is a young 25-30goal scoring forward, Gorges is a top 4 d-man locked up for over half a decade, and Lars Eller is at minimum gonna be a 3rd line 2-way forward(possibly top 6) . And even Plekanec is signed and should have another good 5yrs in him. I don’t think they have tons of talent, but they aren’t barren with young talent and definitely have more young talent than just Subban and Price (altogether, they have "young": a franchise goalie, a top pairing d-man(subban), a top 4 d-man (gorges), a 25-30goal scorer(Pacioretty), and a top 9-top 6 2-way forward(Eller) . I wouldn’t say they have few building blocks, they just aren’t completely stacked. Habs.

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Moulson wasnt a waiver pickup.