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Originally Posted by bc30
Other than the ties, a lot of that is actually the GM's legacy.
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True to a point, he had to deal with some baggage from Lacroix's reign, but the PP being horrible and his misuse of current players had nothing to do with Pierre. Ryan Smyth was signed last summer. Why take a guy who has played a certain way his entire career and try to change it? Why force skilled guys like Sakic/Hejduk/Wolski to play defense first and not an uptempo game like the Avs have played for years? The goaltending was something he was stuck with, but I still don't think he handled that with anything resembling common sense or foresight.