Come on Nashville!

Phoenix is now clear.
- Scooby_Doo

Canes lost

Canes lost
- Nucker101

Winnipegs next game is against Boston

I am to lazy to read all of the comments after a 12 hr day so... FA and company thought outside the box when they hired Gillis and I thing they will do so again. That said I would like to say thank you to Gillis for his best effort at trying to put a Stanley cup winning team together. I know he had the best intentions. Good moves and bad moves he did okay. If I were him I would't look a this firing as a failure. For all the negatives the guy has a great hockey mind and vision. I wish him and his family the best in the future.

Winnipegs next game is against Boston



- classic321

(frank)ing win against LA (frank)ed us.

Ryan Johansen OT winner. 32 nd goal of the year.

I am to lazy to read all of the comments after a 12 hr day so... FA and company thought outside the box when they hired Gillis and I thing they will do so again. That said I would like to say thank you to Gillis for his best effort at trying to put a Stanley cup winning team together. I know he had the best intentions. Good moves and bad moves he did okay. If I were him I would't look a this firing as a failure. For all the negatives the guy has a great hockey mind and vision. I wish him and his family the best in the future.
- thundachunk

Gillis wasn't that bad IMO, I'm really curious to hear the full story down the road about how much ownership interfered. I hope I'm wrong about them making him look worse than he was.

Ryan Johansen OT winner. 32 nd goal of the year.
- Scooby_Doo

Franchise player.

Gillis wasn't that bad IMO, I'm really curious to hear the full story down the road about how much ownership interfered. I hope I'm wrong about them making him look worse than he was.
- Nucker101

Won't be until his contract is up

Nicholson as President. Holland as GM.
- Scooby_Doo

Add in Babcock as coach and I'll start planning the Cup parade route.

I am to lazy to read all of the comments after a 12 hr day so... FA and company thought outside the box when they hired Gillis and I thing they will do so again. That said I would like to say thank you to Gillis for his best effort at trying to put a Stanley cup winning team together. I know he had the best intentions. Good moves and bad moves he did okay. If I were him I would't look a this firing as a failure. For all the negatives the guy has a great hockey mind and vision. I wish him and his family the best in the future.
- thundachunk

Well said, and the same can be said about Vigneault. I think people will always focus on the negatives (and yes, there were quite a few - in particular the last few years) but there was certainly also a lot of success and, most importantly, exciting and fast-paced hockey under that tandem. I wish them both well (in terms of Gillis, he was beginning to look more and more like road-kill and a major candidate for a stroke so perhaps in his case it's a blessing in disguise)

Gillis wasn't that bad IMO, I'm really curious to hear the full story down the road about how much ownership interfered. I hope I'm wrong about them making him look worse than he was.
- Nucker101

Me too I liked the guy. I have a feeling we will hear he slowly lost the reigns and FA took more and more control over time. That is just opinion not a fact but I know people with money and they always want to get their hands dirty. Money is power it doesn't mean power is always smart.

Come on Nashville!

Phoenix is now clear.
- Scooby_Doo

One more chip left to fall after that

Me too I liked the guy. I have a feeling we will hear he slowly lost the reigns and FA took more and more control over time. That is just opinion not a fact but I know people with money and they always want to get their hands dirty. Money is power it doesn't mean power is always smart.
- thundachunk

Agreed

Franchise player.
- Nucker101

Caps winning, Preds down 2-1 though.

Well said, and the same can be said about Vigneault. I think people will always focus on the negatives (and yes, there were quite a few - in particular the last few years) but there was certainly also a lot of success and, most importantly, exciting and fast-paced hockey under that tandem. I wish them both well
- Zogg

AV had a lot of success. I didn't not like his coaching stye much the same as I don't like Torts style too defensive and boring. While I respect both and there accomplishments I still don't like their style. If they were to win us a cup I still wouldn't like the type of hockey but I would love the cup win.
I thought Gillis should have fired AV that was his first mistake in my book.

and of the "good" only hamhuis is what I would consider part of their core (Tanev starting to work his way up) which reinforces my point that when people pointed out his "executive of the year" that it was on the back of what Burke/Nonis did for the organization. Gillis took a good team, added to it slightly and got to the cup final, then let the talent level erode away.

Gillis was not a good gm, and it could be argued his best asset was the Aquillini's chequebook.
- Isles_since_6

Hamhuis might be the only part you consider as part of the core, but he, Ehrhoff, Malhotra and Tanev were all part of what made him Executive of the Year in 2011. Regardless of what he did since, he did a great job setting up that season.

I don't think MLSE could afford to do that, as deep as those pockets are.
- golfingsince

They might want to re-think that strategy. If Toronto lose tonight they're out of yet another postseason.

They might want to re-think that strategy. If Toronto lose tonight they're out of yet another postseason.
- AlexF

Nonis is a mediocre GM. He played it smart not trading the Sedins, Schneider, kesler, Edlet, etc when he was here, but traded 2nd and 3rd rounders for scrubs, had a pretty subpar draft record as well. Luongo trade as great, but apparently Keenan as going to go with another offer but ownership ties his hands so Nonis kinda lucked out on that one.

They might want to re-think that strategy. If Toronto lose tonight they're out of yet another postseason.
- AlexF

Yeah. Nonis is brutal. At least he has the core locked up.

I hope the new GM offer sheets Schenn ROR Subban or another high profile RFA
- VANTEL

Offer sheets are useless. I hope he pulls off a few trades. If the new GM watched any of the last game Kesler and Edler will both be moved by the draft. And Tortorella will be fired before the ink's dry on the contract.

Nonis is a mediocre GM. He played it smart not trading the Sedins, Schneider, kesler, Edlet, etc when he was here, but traded 2nd and 3rd rounders for scrubs, had a pretty subpar draft record as well. Luongo trade as great, but apparently Keenan as going to go with another offer but ownership ties his hands so Nonis kinda lucked out on that one.
- Nucker101

I thought the Lu trade was all Keenan. Anyways, I always felt one of DN's better moves was signing Mitchell.

I thought the Lu trade was all Keenan. Anyways, I always felt one of DN's better moves was signing Mitchell.
- golfingsince

Yeah, that was a good one, but similar to Hamhuis/Garrison. The guy's first choice as definitely to play here.

I'd hire Kruger as a coach. I don't think he got a fair shake in Edmonton.

I'd hire Kruger as a coach. I don't think he got a fair shake in Edmonton.
- golfingsince

I like that idea.