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 Adam
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Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
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| CrusaderPi wrote on Tue, 26 April 2022 12:54 |
You're probably right about Lowe. He was better than MacTavish and Tambellini. BUT his tenure was marked by two things: a long slow decline from the very good team Sather built and selling off every future asset he could find for the one successful run. He gets credit for figuring out Pronger was a game changer and I would bet he knew midway through 05-06 it was one and done, but he mismanaged the Oilers for 7 years and was the cause of the decade of darkness that followed.
He was an awful GM.
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Agreed. I also think that Kevin Lowe continues to have an influence on hockey operations to this day, and has absolutely contributed to keeping terrible GMs longer than the team should, so as an executive overall, Lowe is a total failure. But not the worst. I think he's better than those two, as well as Chiarelli and Tambellini. Here's my synopsis on those guys.
Chiarelli - the team literally would have been better if he had done nothing. One of the very few good moves that MacTavish ever made was picking up an extra first round pick in a deep 2015 draft for David Perron. Had the Oilers used it on Barzal, that would have been ideal. Kyle Connor or Thomas Chabot would have been excellent picks that would have been good impact players for the franchise. Even if we did the rumoured idiotic thing and picked Ericksson-Ek early, it still would have meant we would have a real NHL player for that. Instead, as was his wont, Chia panicked when he failed to trade for Dougie Hamilton and reflexively made a deal for the next live body he was offered, paying almost what Calgary did for an all-star defenceman in order to bring in a guy who never could crack an NHL lineup. The next summer, he wrongly diagnosed a very unlucky season where everyone was hurt constantly in to thinking that there were issues with our most talented players, leading to a trade of Hall for Larsson. The next year he took a bit of a down year as proof that Eberle was an issue and dealt down for Ryan Strome. Then he made that even worse by trading Strome for some guy named Spooner. "The Deal is One for One" defined his tenure here. He finished up just as strong, signing Koskinen to a long-term overpayment. He may be the worst ever because he took an embarrassment of riches and eroded it ridiculously quickly.
Ken Holland has likewise been pretty miserable. He's got the best players in the league in their absolute prime and he's completely failed to build around them. He's demonstrated dinosaur-like instincts, and the good moves he has made, like hiring Woodcroft, are almost entirely by accident.
I think there's a good argument that Lowe is the 5th worst NHL GM for the Oilers. I think Larry Gordon and Keith Gretzky have so little track record they get no ranking, so that makes Lowe the 2nd best of all-time! Even though he admittedly is terrible.
"Thinking that a bad team's best players are the reason the team is bad is the "Tambellini re-signing Lennart Petrell" of sports opinions." @Woodguy55
#FireLowe #FireBobbyNicks #FireKenHolland #FireKeithGretzky
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