[Greg Wyshynski, Lower Broad Hockey] The perception around the league of Barry Trotz is that he doesn’t know what he’s doing. That came my way from a number of executives around the league.
[Greg Wyshynski, Lower Broad Hockey] The perception around the league of Barry Trotz is that he doesn’t know what he’s doing. That came my way from a number of executives around the league.
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I love Barry Trotz to death, but that’s the impression I get. I think he’s a done a good job loading us up with quality prospects, but I’m not sure he’s up to the task of managing an NHL roster. I think the contract/trade stuff is a bit beyond his depth.
No doubt! He’s been winging it ever since he took over the GM role. He thought we’d be legit contenders with Sissons & Novak as two of our top three centermen…
Part of a larger interview about the outside perception of Nashville. Other “insights” and educated guesses from Wyshnynski about the GM hunt:
Nashville will probably hire a new GM from outside the organization who has been a NHL GM before.
The most interesting name that he’s heard is Kevin Adams, the former Buffalo GM.
He would expect that Brunette keeps his job for one more year to avoid too much change all at once.
It’s the real reason why he is stepping down IMO.
Martin over Martone and Hagens is going to irk me in the future, isn’t it?
Correct, and unfortunately at this point the team is only a year or two away from the youth starting to take over and carry this team north again, before we’ve actually got anything even close to a Celebrini out of the draft, so unless the new guy does the painful thing and trades off guys we dont want to trade off and starts a real rebuild, or a couple of our prospects randomly pop off like weve never seen before (super unlikely), we are already on the rails back toward the perennial mushy middle “make the playoffs and lose in the first two rounds” for the foreseeable future
Guarantee Trotz was a popular phone number since he got the job. Someone who doesn’t know what he’s doing is going to make some dumb decisions and Trotz definitely did.
damn perception around the league is that other offices do in fact have eyes
I feel like he has decent respect from the league and did a fine job. Adding O’Reilly and Nyquist was genius.
The Brady Martin over Hagens/Martone, Skjei contract are where it went wrong. Also, the way he handled the Luke Schenn trade was clearly getting taken advantage of.
And finally it’s hindsight but the Askarov trade is looking rough. Chrona won’t become anything and from how Edstrom is playing he’ll be lucky to be anything more than a mediocre 3C. That’s pretty brutal
BRADY SKJEI 7×7. He will be a UFA at 37.
He went from making 5.25m to 7m as a 30 year old defenseman. He has not had a single season in the NHL where the relative expected goals for, or relative corsi for, demonstrate that the team plays better with him on the ice.
Fuuuuuuuuck.
That perception has been everywhere but except in the minds of most of our fanbase #trusttheprocess