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From: [email protected] (Greg Ballentine)
Subject: Re: Wings will win
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In article [email protected], [email protected] (Randy A. Graca) writes:
>[email protected] (Greg Ballentine) writes:
Lots of debate about the virtues of Bryan Murray vs Pat Quinn as a GM
deleted. Randy Graca seems to think Murray is the best GM in the league.
I think Quinn is one of several who are better.
>>Plus his team (Quinn's) has improved a much greater amount than Detroit since
>>he took over with them.
>
>How do you figure? Both Vancouver and Detroit did the same thing last year:
>They both won their division, they had close to the same number of points,
>they both went down 3-1 in the first round of the playoffs before finally
>escaping in 7 games, and they both got knocked out in the second round by
>teams they should have been able to beat, with less talent. (Specifically,
>if I remember correctly, third place teams). How does this make Vancouver
>more improved? Further, if I'm not mistaken, the Wings had more points than
>Vancouver at the end of this season (albeit not many).
When Quinn took over Vancouver- several years ago, NOT LAST YEAR, they
regularily missed the playoffs. I can't recall if they missed the playoffs
the year before his hiring but they probably did. Quinn has improved the
team from non-playoff calibre to a serious contender.
When Murray took over in Detroit, the were about a .500 team that was a
contender to win the Norris division and possibly even a Stanley Cup
contender.
So Quinn has improved his team more than Murray has since taking over as a GM.
Quinn is one example of a better GM than Murray.
Gregmeister