NHL Transactions, Injuries & Rumours

[Mike]

lol..

[The BBKL Insider]

Lou

"I report to Brendon and the other 2 (Hunter & Dubas) report to me. I've been given complete control"

goodness, i quit.

[Arian The Insider]

we are fucked lol

[Shep]

Remember this?

http://www.nj.com/devils/index.ssf/2013 ... grets.html

Devils general manager Lou Lamoriello is a man who never admits to having regrets. If he has them, as he must, he won’t say so.

But with the Boston Bruins reaching the Stanley Cup Finals for the second time in three seasons, you have to wonder whether Lamoriello would like to have a mulligan on his decision to fire Claude Julien as Devils’ coach back on April 2, 2007.

Since Julien took over the Bruins in 2007-08, he has won 256 regular-season games. The Devils have won 250.

More importantly, Julien has guided the Bruins to 48 playoff victories (and counting), winning one Stanley Cup. The Devils have won 19 playoff games over that time without a Cup.

Lamoriello denies he has any regrets about letting Julien go with three games remaining in the 2006-07 season and the Devils tied for first place in the Atlantic Division.

"No, because I made the decision at that time with the information I had in front of me," Lamoriello told The Star-Ledger. "If you could go back and make decisions again, knowing what you know now, things would be different.

"You can’t look back. You’ve got to trust the position you’re in and the information you have. Nobody else has that information."

Lamoriello would not discuss what information he had at the time that led him to fire Julien, other than to say: "I don’t think we were ready both mentally and (physically) to play the way that is necessary going into the playoffs.

"There’s no question he did a good job for us. There are always circumstances why things are done. You do things for reasons and you never look back."

There was speculation that Julien had lost control of his players, which he has always denied, but Lamoriello took over as interim coach and the Devils lost in the second round of the ’07 playoffs to Ottawa.

The guy is a maniac.

[CasperX22]

we are fucked lol

Poor guys lol!

[Arian The Insider]

only hope is that i can't see shanahan letting this guy ruin the work they've begun to put in

[CasperX22]

only hope is that i can't see shanahan letting this guy ruin the work they've begun to put in

Or you guys could just quit and find a new Canadian team to root for lol!

[The BBKL Insider]

only hope is that i can't see shanahan letting this guy ruin the work they've begun to put in

Or you guys could just quit and find a new Canadian team to root for lol!

Flames

these old guys are all off their rockers

i thought we were past these days since we moved on from Fletcher

[dave1959]

how many men does it take to run a hockey team?? lol

[Arian The Insider]

how many men does it take to run a hockey team?? lol

the leafs have the same amount of guys as pretty much any team lol. the difference is that they get tons of media coverage so people actually know exactly who is in their front office.

[The BBKL Insider]

Shanny just said that everything still runs through him

good to know

[lightupdadarkness]

Welcome baaaaaaaaaaack Lou Lamoriello!

[Handsome&FairMike]

Don't mind it. Guy has been successful. Gives dubas and hunter a bit more time. Gives shanahan another guy to bounce ideas off of. It's not like you have to worry about Babcock leaving.

[thom54]

Ryan CLOWWWWEEE!

[bills09]

I like it personally loads of experience for the future gm Dubas tto learn from

[kyuss]

what has this Dubas guy ever done to be seen as the promised GM of the future?

[anton]

second youngest GM in OHL history and built the Soo Greyhounds who had missed the playoffs 4 consecutive years into the best team in the O within 3 seasons. widely considered one of the best analytics minds in the sport

[kyuss]

that's a good start at least. And I'm definitely referring to his OHL past more than to his supposed analytics skills. Even in case it is true he is very good at it, I don't find that to be much relevant in terms of GM-ing capabilities.

[CasperX22]

that's a good start at least. And I'm definitely referring to his OHL past more than to his supposed analytics skills. Even in case it is true he is very good at it, I don't find that to be much relevant in terms of GM-ing capabilities.

How is it not relevant?

[kyuss]

not completely irrelevant, but one could easily be a super expert of analytics and be completely clueless as a GM