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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...

Chayka and Sundin arguing about whether to keep or trade Domi would be entertaining.

A part of me figures White doesn't want to leave Dallas for a role where he's just going to be second fiddle again... assuming reports of Sundin getting POHO or something similar are true.

The crazy thing is put Gillis in there and I think it could really work out: POHO: Gillis VP: Sundin GM: Chayka Gillis can provide the exact experience both other guys lack. And I think he'd mesh well with both considering his history with Sundin and the similarities between him and Chayka. In...

This is the most ineffective I've ever seen McDavid (and yet somehow he still has 4 points in 4 games). He's clearly hurting hard.

They also didn't immediately go into GM roles. Yzerman worked under Ken Holland for 4 seasons with Detroit (along with being the GM of Team Canada for 2 World Championships and the 2010 Olympics) before Tampa poached him. Sakic had 2 or 3 seasons with Colorado before taking the full GM role.

Yeah I've tried to be pretty optimistic about this whole process but if these rumblings are true (and to be fair they might not be) I'll be very, very confused.

As far as day to day responsibilities go, maybe sure. But in this case having a POHO above Sundin would be more about giving him someone who could speed-run the training most people spend at least a few years on before becoming a GM (or in the case of Scott White, 2 decades).

Sundin as high up as even a GM position with Mike Gillis in POHO position to help guide him through the job for a few years before Sundin possibly takes over both positions from there... well sure I could maybe get behind that I guess. But with all due respect to Sundin and everything he did as...

Connor Dewar has more goals with the Penguins in this first round than he did in 54 regular season and playoff games with the Leafs.

Well we got their head scout's 2nd in command. So getting Jim Nill's second in command would be fitting too.

I'm getting more comfortable with the idea of Scott White being the only guy hired. The guy is 58 year old, has 20 years of management experience going back to the AHL, and has been directly under Jim Nill for 13 seasons in Dallas. As much as I'd like Gillis involved I'm not sure how much...

Well glad Kopitar at least got to go out on home ice. Definitely a hell of a player.

Honestly a little surprised (since DOPS is typically useless). Probably would have just been a fine if the sens were still playing.

Yeah that that might just be the biggest negative to not getting a Gillis-type POHO.

There's certainly some warts in his transaction history but acquiring Kuemper and Raanta gave Arizona one of the top goalie tandems in the league for a little while. He drafted/acquired Keller, Schmaltz, and Chychrun and gave them all big contract extensions that all turned out to be pretty...

Ok, it's me.

Wouldn't be shocked if that's not the case anymore. Word was generally that the Devils ownership always liked Hamilton more than Fitzgerald did. So I'd expect they try to mend that relationship now.

We need some puck-moving defencemen. With all due respect to Chadwick/Thrun/Villeneuve we can't go into the season hoping they can pull it off for a full season. Free agent options are, of course, pretty bad. I wouldn't hate throwing money at Darren Raddysh but we're gonna have to hope the guy...

He wouldn't be my first choice but I'd be ok with Chayka as GM provided Gillis was POHO above him. His inexperience would certainly make me pretty hesitant to give him full control though.