The NHL has operated for 19 years in the salary cap era. Which of course means DownGoesBrown chose to rank each year's class of GMs. They get points for impact, success and their entertainment value. Which year's class wins?
It’s the middle of July, and we’re getting dangerously close to that time of year when the
essentially shuts down. Not officially, of course, but there’s about a six-week stretch where we don’t get much in the way of big signings or trades. It’s almost like the GMs all go on vacation.Specifically, we’re going to rank each of the GM classes of the cap era. That means we’re going back to 2005 and judging each calendar year based on which full-time GMs were hired .
The ground rules are simple. We’re judging based only on what a GM did with that team, not anywhere else before or after. Interim GMs don’t count. And each hire in a given year gets equal weighting — if a year saw five guys hired and one of them was a modern-day Sam Pollock, that will boost the ranking but only to a point; the other guys matter just as much.
Each class gets ranked based on their impact, their success and their entertainment value, which is based on a strict system of me pulling a number out of the air and running with it. Highest total wins.Not ranked: Class of 2023Barry Trotz , Brad Treliving , Craig Conroy , Danny Briere , Kyle Dubas who says he’s only the interim GM but isn’t fooling anyone
Look, I think I’ve shown over the years that I’m willing to be entirely unreasonable when it comes to a ranking, but even I have my limits. These guys have been on the job for a few weeks, most of them have barely done anything newsworthy yet, and I’m not even sure Conroy knows that free agency has started. I can’t sit here and pretend I can pass judgment on any of them yet. I like the work Blake has done in L.A., even though he hasn’t won anything yet.
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