How Does Milbury Still have a Job?

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PDO

Discussion Starter · Jun 24, 2004

This just amazes me, this guy has done more bad trades than any other GM in the league by far.. watching the '97 draft and I just got reminded that he took Luongo and Brewer.

Trade's that Milbury has literally been worked on:

Brewer, Green and 2nd round pick (Winchester) sent to Edmonton for Roman Hamirlik

Luongo was traded to Florida from the New York Islanders along with Olli Jokinen on June 24, 2000 in exchange for Oleg Kvasha and Mark Parrish.

Bill Muckalt, Zdeno Chara, and the 2nd selection in the 2001 draft (Jason Spezza) for Alexie Yashin

In 2000 he drafted DiPietro, whom he only needed due to needlessly trading Luongo away over Heatley.

So basically, right now if it werne't for Milbury the Isles lineup include:

Heatley, Jokinen, Spezza, Chara, Brewer and Luongo.

I don't think there are any Isle's fans here, but does anyone have any explanation how he is still a GM in this league?

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KB in Kelowna

· #2 · Jun 24, 2004

PDO,

there are many people in executive postions in the National Hockey League, who make me wonder, just what was the owner doing in those pictures? Milbury is one, Bob Pulford ( a favourite whipping boy of mine) is another. They must have some realy bad blackmail pictures, how else do you explain their continued employment?

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grim

· #3 · Jun 24, 2004

We've been over this before a few dozen times.... but don't forget Todd Bertuzzi and Bryan McCabe.

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Hockeytown

· #4 · Jun 24, 2004

Who did New York get/give in the trades that involved Chris Osgood and Michael Pecca? I can't rememebr? Anyway, my dad thinks Ken Holland deserves to be fired for the whole Hasek-Joseph-Legace-LaMothe thing in Detroit :roll: . I can't convince him to look at the fact that he has brought 3 Stanley Cups to the city, more than most GM's today can say. He has built a great team here, and the best part is, it doesn't look like when all these older guys retire (Shanahan, Yzerman, Chelios), we won't absolutely stink up the league, with promising young stars like Datsyuk, Zetterberg and Fischer, to name a few.

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FillyFanatic

· #5 · Jun 24, 2004

you can look at any GM who has had a long tenure with any team and look at the trades they made and say "Look at all the players they could have had if they didnt make trades."

Firstly, Milbury makes trades to improve his team: Hamrlik, Peca, Yashin, Osgood, Parrish - all those players produced before they came to the islanders (and even when they plyed for the islanders to some extent) No GM in the league can possibly predict when a player is on the downside of his career. Great example Pierre lacroix: is he not one of the top 3 best GM's in the league? Did he not sign Teemu Selanne, the same Teemu Selanne who was pretty fair last year, but blew this year?

Same with Yashin, Yashin was incredible when he was signed, definetly worth the money and definetly worth signing, any team woulda gotten him for some unproven talent.

Also, his team might not seem so great on paper but they still made the playoffs there are lots of GM's in the league with bigger budgets that are similiar or even worse.

Those teams include:
Vancouver: similiar budget, similiar playoff history, yeh better players but end result is the same
Boston: similiar budget, similiar playoff history, better players, similiar outcome
Chicago: Great playoff city, GM blows
LA: Similiar budget, similiar playoff history, after all the injuries team seems similair lol
Rangers: bigger budget..horrible predictors of skill

etc...theres plenty of GM's that are worse we can start topics about them=D

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geixhl

· #6 · Jul 1, 2004

I cant stand Milbury. He is so frustrating. I appreciate our boyz makin the playoffs the past 3 season though. The previous 7 hurt big time.

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Amoroq

· #7 · Jul 1, 2004

KB in Kelowna said:
PDO,

there are many people in executive postions in the National Hockey League, who make me wonder, just what was the owner doing in those pictures? Milbury is one, Bob Pulford ( a favourite whipping boy of mine) is another. They must have some realy bad blackmail pictures, how else do you explain their continued employment?

baaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!

Oh silence those lambs!!!

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geixhl

· #8 · Jul 1, 2004

Anyone hear whats next on Milbury's list? Probably off trading Czerkawski for a new desk in his office this time. I know probably not much for real until the CBA but post if you have heard anything (hopefully something involving more than a desk in return).

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