The dude quit the day before the Stanley Cup playoffs started
n00b_racer
I feel like the consensus is that he really wasn’t a good GM and not all that qualified for the first job he got so no
Neb-Nose
LOL!
Ecruteak-vagrant
The guy who was more focused on running his franchise Wendy’s and pseudoscience? No way. It’s honestly insane anyone ever looked at him as a modern analytics driven GM. The dude lost draft picks because he tried to do illegal testing on combine attendees and we still have no idea on the specifics of them. Was he out here measuring skulls like someone at a human auction? Who’s to say.
Aelderg0th
Fuck no. He only understands stats, not the game or the people who coach and play it.
LePetitJeremySapoud
If Wendy’s ever become a hockey franchise then sure
Penz_YaPigeon
No. However if Chirelli and Hextal can get hired multiple times 💀
MNGopherfan
Man was a disaster and can be half blamed for the coyotes getting moved. The team having to go into a second rebuild after they had been trying to emerge from the previous one was all because of his moves.
imaybeacatIRl
LOL
No.
He was fucking abysmal. He illegally tested players fitness before the draft and lost their franchise a 1st and 2nd round draft pick.
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No
The dude quit the day before the Stanley Cup playoffs started
I feel like the consensus is that he really wasn’t a good GM and not all that qualified for the first job he got so no
LOL!
The guy who was more focused on running his franchise Wendy’s and pseudoscience? No way. It’s honestly insane anyone ever looked at him as a modern analytics driven GM. The dude lost draft picks because he tried to do illegal testing on combine attendees and we still have no idea on the specifics of them. Was he out here measuring skulls like someone at a human auction? Who’s to say.
Fuck no. He only understands stats, not the game or the people who coach and play it.
If Wendy’s ever become a hockey franchise then sure
No. However if Chirelli and Hextal can get hired multiple times 💀
Man was a disaster and can be half blamed for the coyotes getting moved. The team having to go into a second rebuild after they had been trying to emerge from the previous one was all because of his moves.
LOL
No.
He was fucking abysmal. He illegally tested players fitness before the draft and lost their franchise a 1st and 2nd round draft pick.
No one will ever hire him to be a GM.
One of the lesser GMs when it comes to drafting by [some metrics](https://scoutthe.xyz/draftscoringgmcharts/2013/2023/7/John%20Chayka)
You and I have a better chance
Bc he’s terrible
Many forget don waddell was seen as a bit of a joke after the Thrashers (boris vakabik etc.) then went years between gm roles
He wasn’t even entirely an AGM between it
Scouting mostly so
Edit:
If you asked someone this about waddell in 2010 they’d laugh but he’s actually been relatively ok overall this time around
Yeah the key is how things are changing to welcome analytics more with Tulsky naturally at the forefront Dubas holding coattails
Chayka unfortunately representing a realm of analytics that is more about scouting combine stuff than xG (sigh🙄) but
Yeah almost certainly tho very likely agm
Funny how noone remembers how chayka took keller *and* chych in his first draft then snagged POJ in his second draft at 23rd overall
Pepperidge farm remembers
The first two were seen as hit or miss by other GMs not really for any good reason and john doesn’t get enough credit for that
Pepperidge farm was so geeked about an analytically minded gm taking the players he had ranked 1 & 2nd best available
Anyhow yeah chayka narrative overblown