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Zinner21
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Forum: Armchair-GMFeb. 6, 2021 at 6:30 p.m.
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Bcarlo25</b></div><div>If you want to just cherry pick the bad moves of a GM, you can go on forever for any GM. It’s a really stupid tactic.

Also, you listed a couple moves that aren’t that bad.

I wasn’t necessarily a huge fan of the seguin return, but they absolutely HAD to trade Seguin. And it really hurts the story of the trade that eriksson instantly got a horrid concussion (once he returned to normal he was a 30-30 guy with elite defense), and Sweeney started down his path of horrible moves trading Reilly smith. The big error was over valuing joe morrow. If the trade was eriksson, smith, Fraser, and a first instead of morrow, I’m okay with it.

The boychuk trade was awesome. A+. Fantastic. Most overrated player in bruins history. A year later he signs one of the worst contracts in the league, and the bruins have a couple second rounders.

Pastrnak, Bergeron, Marchand, Grzelcyk, Miller, Krejci, and Rask were all either drafted, acquired, or signed to their current deal by Chiarelli. Kinda important guys. (I think you’re smart enough not to bring Gorton into this, which is why i haven’t mentioned him until now. That take still makes me laugh)</div></div>

Chiarelli really did set back the Oilers by YEARS. He was handed a golden ticket and tried to expedite the process. Didn't do his research on Reinhart, and how it worked out is he moved Hall, Eberle, a mid 1st, high 2nd and in return had Adam Larsson to show for it. One of the biggest asset management fails I can think of.

He planned his rosters around 18 year olds on multiple occasions. Puljujarvi was rushed and when Bouchard was drafted, Chiarelli viewed that as a plug and play top 4 RHD instead of actually trying to acquire a legitimate top 4 defenseman. It took Todd McLellan refusing to dress Bouchard for him to get sent down.

Sure he made some good moves. Talbot was a good bet that had a great run in 2017 but then predictably regressed. Pat Maroon was a good move that worked out for a couple seasons but a 25+ goal pace for him wasn't sustainable
I understand why he signed Lucic, but it was too long and everyone knew it was going to be boat anchor after 3 or 4 years. And it turned out horribly after just 2 years...

He tried so hard to replicate that big heavy hockey style, instead of building around the strengths his current players had. And in his final year he was just throwing darts trying to save his job and unnecessarily threw away drafts picks and solid depth players for scraps.
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Forum: Armchair-GMFeb. 5, 2021 at 6:23 p.m.
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