4 NHL General Managers on the Hot Seat This Season & NHL's 5 Most Overrated General Managers
Plus revisiting another trade from the past, this time it involves former Wild favorite Brent Burns.
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4 NHL General Managers on the Hot Seat This Season
July 14, 2024 by Michael Ostrower
All successful NHL teams are built through a general manager’s (GM) vision. A blueprint has to be made and executed through trades, signings, drafting, and elsewhere. There is no definitive way to build a Stanley Cup contender, and no blueprint can be completed twice. While GMs typically have longer leashes than head coaches, they still get fired when their team is not successful. So, which GMs are on the hot seat this season?..
NHL’s 5 Most Overrated General Managers
July 10, 2024 by Mike Fink
It’s impossible to build a Stanley Cup champion without a great general manager (GM) to lead the front office. They are the architects, the ones with a plan and a vision for how the team should draft well, develop and make superb free agency and trade deadline additions, and everything in between…
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Revisiting the Brent Burns Trade
June 24, 2024 by Eugene Helfrick
On June 24, 2011, the Minnesota Wild and San Jose Sharks made a blockbuster trade on the 2011 NHL Draft floor.
The Sharks acquired Brent Burns, who was one of the top offensive defensemen in the league, while the Wild got assets that they hoped would quickly turn around their franchise. It was a gamble for Minnesota however, as they were giving up a developed all-star for still-developing youngsters…
