09-14-2020, 04:47 AMTomen Wrote: biggest missed opportunity in your career as a GM be it a miss in the draft when you could have had them/missed trade/ missed FA signing ?

Without a doubt in my mind my biggest miss in the draft has to be in S46

I was still in Montreal at the time I’m guessing in an advisory role or something of the sorts so I was really familiar with the players activity levels in the locker room, we had picks 50 and 54 in the draft and as we got to pick 50 I had two players without a doubt that I wanted on the team and they were both from Montreal, but @TommySalami had recently joined the management team in Edmonton and we had started grooming him for the eventual GM position and he felt really strongly about a different player. I decided to allow him to choose his guy at 50 and I’d pick one of my guys at 54.


Both players I wanted have turned out to be great players in the league, and sadly Tommy boy’s pick ended up refusing to sign with us because we were the Blue Toy Dog’s or BTD’s for short. In retrospect it’s easy to say “Yeah I shouldn’t have let Tommy make the pick and I would have gotten my guy” but who knows how the whole scenario pans out if I select the initial player at 50, maybe we wouldn’t have gotten one of my favourite players in the league in @“James Truong” at 54.

If everything else plays out the same and we still would have gotten James at 54, I’d call not drafting my initial target at 50 is my biggest regret as a manager so far, but life has no guarantees and ultimately I can still say I’m happy with how that draft turned out overall.