Holmgren not among GM award finalists
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Holmgren not among GM award finalists
The finalists for the NHL Executive of the Year have been announced, and the Flyers' Paul Holmgren is not on the list.
Holmgren made bold moves last offseason in trading away building blocks Mike Richards and Jeff Carter, and then addressed the goaltending situation with a $51 million contract for Ilya Bryzgalov.
The finalists are Doug Armstrong (St. Louis), David Poile (Nashville) and Dale Tallon (Florida). All had teams with low payrolls and exceeding expectations.
TSN's Bob McKenzie, among the voters, tweeted that he has Holmgren on his three-man ballot. "Doug Armstrong, David Poile and Dale Tallon nominees for NHL Exec of Year, all worthy, but I had PHI's Paul Holmgren on my three-man ballot. Didn't like Bryzgalov contract but to blow up core of team on fly - Richards-Carter trade - and not miss a beat, plus fill Pronger void. Trouble with exec voting this year, TOO many good options. Armstrong, Poile, Tallon, Holmgren. Don Maloney did great work, Bryan Murray too."
Armstrong's biggest move was firing coach Davis Payne just 13 games into the season and replacing him with former Flyers coach Ken Hitchcock. The Blues would go on to win won the Central Division for the first time since 1999-2000.
Poile, who has been a finalist before, locked in key players in the offseason and then made some big moves at the trade deadline to fill in holes. The Predators won 48 games.
Tallon added 10 new players in the offseason in a massive overhaul. He also hired first-time coach Kevin Dineen. The Panthers won their division for the first time in franchise history and made the playoffs for the first time in 12 years
The winner will be announced at the NHL Awards Shows on June 20 in Las Vegas.
That's terrible! Holmgren keeps rebuilding the Flyers, giving them new faces, styles, and strengths, and nothing. So this, and last week we didn't get any rookie love either?!?!?— macd41144- This makes perfect sense. The same way that none of the Flyers rookies are being considered for Rookie of the Year, Holmgren is not being considered for GM of the year. Both of these decisions will look awful stupid if the Flyers win the SC.— Bobphxville
- hahaha
Here we go again: poor, victimize Flyers. Why does everyone hate us?— WhatWhiners - Whatwhiners has no life since Cindy and co. took an early exit. Keep posting, it shows what a loser you truly are. Get a job/girlfriend/life. Find a winning team to chear for. — gjkurcon
- Wait you said pitt in 7 right? But I don't think there's a game tonight. — drenner
- Oh, and I hope you enjoyed 14 wrecking Malkin because he's gonna be around for a while. — drenner
- WOW!! Are you kidding me?!! WhatWhiners - if you don't believe that Holmgren should at least be in the mix for GM of the Year, you are a blatant hater AND a completely clueless IDIOT, who know nothing about hockey!! Holmgren re-made the entire roster with his moves last year. He made the Flyers younger, faster, better, AND got a goalie. Not to mention how he gave the Flers a successful heart transplant. IDIO T!!— 5NOT4
- Curious as to who is responsible for the list. If it's peers of Holmgren's, fellow GMs, that counts for something in my book. If it's a decision that Bettman, Camnpbell, or Shanahan (unlikely)have their fingerprints on, well these guys cannot be trusted to cross the street unaided.— Claudio Vernight
- Typical— fman727
- I've been a Paul Holmgren fan since he beat up Dave Shultz when The Hammer played for the Kings. Homer did a great job of restructuring the Flyers, but remember, they were a very good team that probably under achieved last yesr. If you look at the accomplishments of the three teams whose GM's are finalists, you can't argue that they didn't lead unexpected and over achieving results with their resources, and are probably more deserving of consideration for the award.— fentonhardy
- Homer deserves the honor of being nominated. Holmgren diddn't just trade pieces, or buy the players he needed, he got the right pieces back. He drafted the others. Trading, Drafting, Free Agency, Signing Undrafted Rookies, Homer uses all of it and seemingly grabs great players and coaches. What of the guys who were nomiated? Only Dave Tallon seems more impressive with what he has done. Poile does a lot with a limited budget, but unless he increases that budget, Weber And/or Suter are gone. And Armstrong's big deal was firing their head coach, a move that saved his job, but I don't know if it makes him GM of the year.— flyler
- Whatwhiners is a pitt fan. a a db*g.. Holmgren is a genius and Flyers wont be awarded anything and lets keep it that way until Bettman says in his mouse voice--- Girouxxxxx Come get the CUP!— fman727
- Florida? Made the playoffs due to the worst division in hockey, the Flyers, Devils, Pens and Rangers had to play each other all year. And why are they rewarding low budgets? I thought the cap was supposed to put everyone on the same level?— Sidewinder7
- Hear hear! Florida gets 3 seed just because of them winning a weak conference. Don't know if that makes you worthy of GM of the Year. Holmgren trades away two key players, brings in rookies, gets a goalie and they just knocked off the Cup favorites. If that doesn't get attention you must really have to do something extraordinary. — ena1977
Holmgren has done great things for sure, but when you look at it from face value, from last year to this year, the flyers actually had 3 less points...so while we all know what he did, it didn't translate on the team record for as much as it did for the others. I get it...may not agree, but i get it. And who cares, there's only 1 award that matters.
