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2024-25 NHL Misc. Thread

jeffbear said:
BTW ... word out of Seattle is that Francis will remain but be reassigned to President while Assistant GM Jason Botterill will move up to GM. That's the same Jason Botterill who completely embarrassed himself as GM of the Sabres before being plucked off the trash heap by Francis when he was staffing the Kraken front office. I dunno guys, but it looks a lot like the Kraken owners don't really know what they're doing ... like at all.
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It’s official. Francis kicked up, Botterill promoted.


View: https://x.com/seattlekraken/status/1914703293130944979?s=61&t=ZT8KDHkGMyk7V3JAuh5_ag
 
Francis gets a promotion in title but perhaps moved away from trades and player acquisitions…because we all know how much Ronnie loves to wheel and deal…🤣
 
andyt said:
Dundon “promoted” him to President of Hockey Operations when he named Waddell GM. But he had no one reporting to him.


View: https://bsky.app/profile/mrworkrate.com/post/3lng2ma6fjs23
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Yup, and Ronnie took that as an insult to his "legacy" with the franchise. You think his pet media mouthpiece Eddie O will get bitter about this newest lack of respect? Nah. Seattle is over-paying him to do crappy, disinterested color on their broadcasts. With time off to get paid by TBS and whoever wants him to shill their horse for the Derby this year.

Let us PLEASE not skip over the ridiculousness that is hiring freaking Botterill after the nonsense he pulled in Buffalo. He's always had a good rep as a personnel guy, but the one time he had the big chair he managed to embarrass the unembarrassable Pegulas so much they ash-canned him.
 
And let's not forget ... THAT is what it sometimes looks like when your owner is detached and leaves the hockey decisions to the hockey men. For all of his supposed meddling, Dundon was smart enough to have one conversation with Ron Francis and immediately know that he was so image conscious and self satisfied that he was terminally allergic to risk.
 
bagopux said:
It was bad but the missed call when Carlson got tripped and the Caps would’ve had a 5 on 3 was laughable too. But the Caps 2d goal should’ve been waived off on a high stick too. Dave Jackson is … well … Dave Jackson

Looked to me the in the 3d the Habs finally figured out that they’re younger and faster than the Caps. Game 2 should be interesting..
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Fair but then there's the crosscheck to Gallagher face that's called every time in the regular season that went ignored too.

My issue was that with the Habs weakest line on the ice they called an icing that should have been waived off because the defender stepped up and prevented the tip. These are waived off every game but last night, in OT, they decide to call it. Ovechkin comes over the boards and game over.

So many little things affect a game and they get amplified in the playoffs.
 
Yeah, Uncle Lou's time was up. Sadly for the Islanders, it was up like 3 years ago and they've got to dig themselves out of a position where they really have no prospect base and have an aging roster. The good news is that they have a solid franchise goaltender and a some other solid parts like Dobson, Barzal and Horvat . They just have to start from scratch with the pipeline, and for once they managed to hang on to their entire draft pick list this year. They also have 2 first rounders in the very talent rich 2026 draft. If they don't do anything stupid and go ahead and just go with the flow towards a competitive nadir next season, they should be able to juice up that roster with 2 or 3 top quality prospects and the cap space they have coming up in 2026. They're right not to trust Lou with those picks and that cap room though. Find a guy with a more modern approach and for goodness sake don't pressure him to win until 2027 or so and they should be able to offload some vets and start rebuilding around Sorokin before he gets too old to make it work.

Now. Watch them hire Ken Holland. lol
 
polarbare said:
I suspect that Seattle President spot might open up sooner than later
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Oooh ... that would be a bad idea for the long term, although Ronnie could probably do some work with those draft picks. I've seen enough speculation about Holland that I'm thinking that might be their first call. And again, a bad idea. Because he doesn't have a long term, so they'll be following up letting short term thinking cloud their judgement with more of the same.
 
Not a good idea for the club certainly, but I wonder if Ron is going to take being the also-ran in Seattle better than he did here.
 
polarbare said:
Not a good idea for the club certainly, but I wonder if Ron is going to take being the also-ran in Seattle better than he did here.
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I think his biggest issue here was he felt like Dundon wasn't going to defer to the hockey people, specifically him. And fair enough because he wasn't. Dundon has said that told Francis up front that he was going to be actively involved and that it was obvious within minutes that it probably wasn't going to work. If Seattle's ownership remains arm's length, then I think he'll pretend he's a shot caller and ride it out. Plus, Botterill is an idiot who will require adult supervision
 
Francis was a class act on and off the ice, but he is so risk-averse that there was no way he could fulfil the GM role that Dundon wanted. Waddell (and now Tulsky) understand perfectly well Dundon's management approach, which is not top-down like so many of his critics think, but is rigorously collaborative. And it works pretty well with the team he has assembled.
 
polarbare said:
I think risk-averse is the perfect way to put it; always building for "next year"
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I admired Francis as a player a great deal, and there's much to appreciate about how he approaches building a prospect pool. That said, he's a tricky combination of cautious and arrogant as a GM. That can work if you're as good as you think you are, but ... yeah.
 
Florida really flipped the script on Tampa last night. Interested to see what response the Lightning offer up in that Game 2, because they only had about 5 minutes of game time when they looked like they could compete. Coming in, the Ning were a popular dark horse to come out of the East. They looked more like a dead horse. If anybody can claw their way back into a series, it's that Lightning team but that was an ugly way to start a series.
 
The Rangers signed Chris Drury to a multi-year extension.

HAHAHAHAHA

www.nhl.com

Chris Drury Agrees to Multi-Year Contract Extension | New York Rangers

The New York Rangers announced today that President and General Manager Chris Drury has agreed to terms on a multi-year contract extension. “I am pleased that Chris will continue to lead the Rangers hockey operations in his role as President and General Manager,” said James L. Dolan, MSG Sports...
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