JFJ to be next Columbus GM?
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Corn Flake
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If this happens, I'm going with the Mayans are right theory.
edit: or when they stopped the calendar at Dec 2012, they really meant just for the Columbus Blue Jackets.
edit: or when they stopped the calendar at Dec 2012, they really meant just for the Columbus Blue Jackets.
bustaheims
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Who knows? Maybe he'll do well managing a team no-one really cares about.
Corn Flake
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Sillies. JFJ won't make a Rask for Raycroft type deal in CBJ. He would inherit Steve Mason. So he already has his one-hit-rookie-wonder fraud goalie.
Peter D.
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Leaving the jokes aside for a minute, would this not be a disaster waiting to happen the second it were to go down?
His stance has been that Leafs ownership wouldn't allow him to go through a rebuild (still does not justify/explain his many moronic moves). I highly doubt the ownership in Columbus would settle for more rebuilding. The team, at the end of this season, will have made the playoffs once in their 12-year existence, has not won a single playoff game, and has seen its attendance erode.
His stance has been that Leafs ownership wouldn't allow him to go through a rebuild (still does not justify/explain his many moronic moves). I highly doubt the ownership in Columbus would settle for more rebuilding. The team, at the end of this season, will have made the playoffs once in their 12-year existence, has not won a single playoff game, and has seen its attendance erode.
S
Stebro
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Hey, any average bum that wants a 5 million deal?
Corn Flake
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Peter D. said:
Oh for sure. There is nothing about CBJ hiring JFJ that suggests it is anything but the final straw that destroys the franchise.
If there was ever a franchise that needed to hire an experienced, highly successful GM with a track record of knowing what it takes to build a winner, they would be it. Find that guy and pay him whatever it takes.
GhostofPotvin29
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If he was allowed to build through the draft it might not be the worst - his drafting was decent here, no?
bustaheims
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Potvin29 said:
He did have the benefit of having significant funds to allocate to his scouting staff while he was here - something he's unlikely to have in Columbus - but, yeah, Frattin, Kulemin, Reimer, Gunnarsson are all JFJ era picks.
Busta Reims said:
I think the problem is he's going into a situation where he's pretty much guaranteed to fail, similar to what he came into with Toronto (although not quite as bad of course). Management is going to want a winner and the team just isn't there yet. No reputable GM is going to take that job so they need to find a puppet.
Kin
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Potvin29 said:
Yes and no. I mean, as Busta mentions he managed to find some good depth players late in the rounds, but he also used his highest ever draft pick on Jiri Tlusty and basically managed to whiff with his highest draft choice every year(except Rask but he can't get too much credit there). It's certainly not a draft record I'd be excited about if I were a CBJ fan.
Zee
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Saint Nik said:
As Burke has pointed out though, drafting is all about the scouts. The general manager doesn't scout all these guys and has to go on the advice on what his scouts are saying. If everyone was on agreement on Tlusty what else could JFJ do? I judge JFJ more about his boneheaded trades and signing like Raycroft first followed up by Toskala.