This!!! Hiring a 26 year old kid with no experience except playing moneyball with fancy stats has proven to be a failed experience...but self entitled millenials like Tanner will tell you experience doesn't matter and doesn't count for anything.
- leonkennedy

They would have been better off hiring Jonah Hill and Brad Pitt

You have just provided anecdotal evidence of one single time a team replaced a player and it worked out. That is fine, it could happen again and has happened countless times before.

But the fact is it a very unlikely scenario. Teams with the least man-games lost routinely outperform teams with the most man games lost. This is not only true, but should be obvious to anyone who thinks about it for any length of time.

Sure, no one wants to make excuses, but injuries are a legitimate one.
- James_Tanner

Ok...do you know who Nick Foles beat to win that Superbowl? Tom Brady. (Ever heard of him?) Funny thing about Tom Brady but the way he got to play was as a backup to a former #1 overall pick Drew Bledsoe. Bledsoe got hurt. Brady went in and the Patriots went on to win their first of many Superbowls. So yeah...I can keep doing this all day if you'd like.

I never suggested injuries don't matter (but keep banging on that strawman) but a good management team takes injuries into account when acquiring players (Schmaltz, Galchenyuk) and builds depth to protect against injury.

But hey...Chayka is awesome. Nothing he can do is ever wrong.

Any chance you'll provide those studies you said existed that others asked for? Just curious and asking for a friend

Well study after study has shown that experience is in fact overrated. Chayka has done a great job and his age is irrelevant. He's made some very astute moves and overall I'd say he's been a good GM. His team uses half the budget that other teams do, and he was coming in to a bad situation, and his team has been extremely injured over the last two years.

What does being self entitled, or a millennial have to do with anything? I'm not the one insulting someone on the internet under a fake name.
- James_Tanner

He uses half the cash because that sad sack franchise loses money hand over fist and Max Domi says what's up biatch !!!!

Well study after study has shown that experience is in fact overrated. Chayka has done a great job and his age is irrelevant. He's made some very astute moves and overall I'd say he's been a good GM. His team uses half the budget that other teams do, and he was coming in to a bad situation, and his team has been extremely injured over the last two years.

What does being self entitled, or a millennial have to do with anything? I'm not the one insulting someone on the internet under a fake name.
- James_Tanner

Every (frank)ing blog you are doing this.

Notice how when I pointed out Nick Foles to counter his "even though the championship of every major sport is decided by who is and isn't injured every single year." statement? Just ignore it and power through. It's actually funny how much the guy rails against Trump and doesn't see the similarities between their personalities and styles.
- Takemedrunkimhome

This

Tanner is a power baby and got my original post deleted because he’s worried about perception. He’s trash.

This

Tanner is a power baby and got my original post deleted because he’s worried about perception. He’s trash.
- RafiDRW

That's some authoritarian poop there

"Fact is, in both of the last two years, the Coyotes have suffered from the worst injury luck in the NHL. Starting goalie, #2 and #3 defenseman, virtually every winger they signed this summer, and now Schmaltz."

A team that has consistently acquired injured (retired) players for salary purposes (Datsuk, Bolland, Hossa) and oft-injured players (Schmaltz, Raanta), and their blogger whines about injuries.

Comedic gold.

I bet Crawford ends up on Arizona and you lament over a multiple cup winning goalie not being able to find the ice.
- Tanuki

I hate you. It’s Datsyuk.

That's some authoritarian poop there
- Takemedrunkimhome

He’s a pile of poop who wields power he shouldn’t have.

He’s a pile of poop who wields power he shouldn’t have.
- RafiDRW

Can you imagine if they had given his alter ego Richard Cloutier the same power

Terrible News:

Nick Schmaltz will be sidelined the rest of the season for the Arizona Coyotes with a lower-body injury, the team announced Tuesday.

The 22-year-old forward has 14 points (five goals, nine assists) in 17 games with the Coyotes since he was acquired in a trade with the Chicago Blackhawks for forwards Dylan Strome and Brendan Perlini on Nov. 25.

Schmaltz, a first-round pick (No. 20) of the Blackhawks in the 2014 NHL Draft, scored 21 goals last season and has 25 points (seven goals, 18 assists) in 40 NHL games this season.

The Coyotes (18-21-3) are seventh in the Pacific Division and six points behind the Minnesota Wild for the second wild card into the Stanley Cup Playoffs from the Western Conference. They have been slowed by injuries to Schmaltz, goalie Antti Raanta (lower body), defensemen Kevin Connauton (lower body) and Jason Demers (lower body), and forwards Christian Dvorak (upper body) and Michael Grabner (upper body).

Arizona, which ended a three-game losing streak with a 5-0 win against the New York Rangers on Sunday, plays the Vancouver Canucks at Rogers Arena on Thursday (10 p.m. ET; SNP, FS-A, NHL.TV).

Even if this were the case, no one is making an argument that I should be the President. I'm a hockey blogger which means being a loudmouthed opinionated idiot is actually a qualification.
- James_Tanner

You’re definitely fitting the bill.

Can you imagine if they had given his alter ego Richard Cloutier the same pwoer
- Reveen.

To be fair. He’d have been raccoon porned to death.

I hate you. It’s Datsyuk.
- RafiDRW

My apologies. Pavel was awesome.

To be fair. He’d have been raccoon porned to death.
- RafiDRW

why bother man...

expect Tanner to change his style or something?

why bother man...

expect Tanner to change his style or something?
- 21peter

Are you saying raccoon porn spam isn’t fun?!?

My apologies. Pavel was awesome.
- Tanuki

He was one of the best.

Are you saying raccoon porn spam isn’t fun?!?
- RafiDRW

possibly getting a bit old though

He was one of the best.
- RafiDRW

Magic man. Hope the rumours he's back next season are true...even if just as a send off playing 3rd line minutes

possibly getting a bit old though
- 21peter

That’s like saying the Pam Anderson porn video will get old.

Magic man. Hope the rumours he's back next season are true...even if just as a send off playing 3rd line minutes
- Takemedrunkimhome

Not on the Wings, please.

Your favorite gm is also keeping a terrible coach in tocchet employed. Even traded Strome away because of it. He might be making moves that make sense on paper but whether it's the coach or roster construction that's the problem, the fact remains is that every year you expect them to be better and every year they continue to suck.

Of course they're not the only team, Oilers as you mentioned are an absolute joke. Montreal and Ottawa might only be marginally better. Of course, we can't forget about St Louis either. Everyone thought they got better, myself included, but they actually seemed to have gotten worst.

Underlying stats might point to a good team but at some point after 3-4 years, you do need to start producing tangible results.
- danktrees

I don't disagree, but its impossible to know if he even made good moves since his team has been absolutely destroyed by injuries. Now Schmaltz is out for the year too.

I don't disagree, but its impossible to know if he even made good moves since his team has been absolutely destroyed by injuries. Now Schmaltz is out for the year too.
- James_Tanner

isnt schmaltz in a contract year?

and do you know what is the injury?

I don't disagree, but its impossible to know if he even made good moves since his team has been absolutely destroyed by injuries. Now Schmaltz is out for the year too.
- James_Tanner

Chayka=injuries. Fire him.

Hey, give Tanner some credit. He was the only one who directly understood that Hall for Larsson was a bad trade. He is a genius.

There are no levels of suck, and that being the case you cannot say one GM is better than the other at this point

If you do then its like saying one is the tallest dwarf