Quoting: RipNasty
I was referring to him in Tampa. In Detroit, he'll show his real worth. He's not a great GM and it'll take a few more years of mediocrity before you realize it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%E2%80%9310_Tampa_Bay_Lightning_season
https://www.hockey-reference.com/teams/TBL/2010.html
You mean the Tampa Bay squad that also finished 14th in the conference, and whose notable players were pretty much just a young Stamkos, Hedman, and a 34 year old St. Louis? Quite a winner he inherited there.
Look at the cup winning rosters, and you might actually notice something. All the notable pieces, minus Coleman and Goodrow, all Yzerman draft picks and trades. Drouin a bust? Got Sergachev for him. McDonagh, a pretty big piece of their defense (who they're very much missing, by the way), gotten for the Nils Lundqvist draft pick and not much else. Cernak? Got him from Philly for Ben Bishop. Vasi, Kucherov, Cirelli, Point, all Yzerman draft picks.
But you're right, he's totally mid. No success at all in building anything. Come on man, you can literally look all this stuff up easily. Ignorance like this is no excuse.