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herman said:
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Nice to hear Morgan's thoughts since he was the go-to (only?) media guy covering the Coyotes during that time. If people want to debate Chayka's track record as a GM in regards to picks and trades and whatnot that's fine, but I still maintain that the other controversies around him were largely overblown in hindsight and Morgan seems to agree.
 
herman said:
I agree with your overall point about experience, but no modern manager or org should be freeballing valuation like that.

If your data group and devs, and scouting group are worth their salt, all that information is already part of the internal system and it’s a simple matter of the software’s calibration of the performance indicators that the team cares about to extrapolate a value metric for the trade package ins and outs to inform the human decision making of position/handedness/roles/vibes evaluation.
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Sure, all teams have some data info and scouts/advisors who weigh in. I posted about the Leafs data on this site about 20 years ago because I got to see some of it and how it was collected. But someone has to take all that in and make the final decision in the heat of the trade deadline. If the GM knows little about all the players involved and has to rely totally on data, opinions and scouting reports - from staff/advisors he doesn't know well, etc, then the scouts, AGM and staff probably should be making the decision - or knowledgeable posters on the internet might be better :). A guy out of the league for 17 years isn't going to know his adversaries very well either. All of that is hard enough to assimilate for a GM who has bee around for the last 17 years

The notion of Sundin being a GM out the gate was crazy talk.
 
CarltonTheBear said:
Nice to hear Morgan's thoughts since he was the go-to (only?) media guy covering the Coyotes during that time. If people want to debate Chayka's track record as a GM in regards to picks and trades and whatnot that's fine, but I still maintain that the other controversies around him were largely overblown in hindsight and Morgan seems to agree.
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Yeah. A lot of it sounds like smear because he didn’t kowtow to the NHL elders properly. At the same time, if the name is instantly disrespected by peers right out of the gate, how is that profitable for MLSE?
 
herman said:
Yeah. A lot of it sounds like smear because he didn’t kowtow to the NHL elders properly. At the same time, if the name is instantly disrespected by peers right out of the gate, how is that profitable for MLSE?
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I get it but I mean this is going to be a hard spin job. I think this is going to kill any lingering feeling of goodwill the fans have if Chayka is hired and Sundin is automatically VPOHO while being largely absent from the team and league for a very long time.
 
Bender said:
I get it but I mean this is going to be a hard spin job. I think this is going to kill any lingering feeling of goodwill the fans have if Chayka is hired and Sundin is automatically VPOHO while being largely absent from the team and league for a very long time.
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Their first move, presumably deciding Berube's fate, will really set the tone.
 
CarltonTheBear said:
Nice to hear Morgan's thoughts since he was the go-to (only?) media guy covering the Coyotes during that time. If people want to debate Chayka's track record as a GM in regards to picks and trades and whatnot that's fine, but I still maintain that the other controversies around him were largely overblown in hindsight and Morgan seems to agree.
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That’s exactly what should be debated here, no? I don’t like that the controversial stuff seems to be getting in the way of a full vetting of his actual track record as a GM. I don’t much care if his departure from the Coyotes was overblown or not if he’s a mediocre manager.
 
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