Friday, August 30, 2013

Where George McPhee Gets the Potato Treatment

The Toronto Maple Leafs SB Nation team Pension Plan Puppets did an article earlier in the summer seeing how their GM (Dave Nonis) would have done vs. a potato as a GM.

The potato won. But how would he fare against our beloved GMGM? Let's see.

The rules: the potato cannot sign UFA's and must resign RFA's at twice the previous value. Buyouts are not allowed either, but bought-out players can be signed.

The UFA's:

  • Mike Ribeiro
  • Tom Poti
  • Matt Hendricks
The RFA's:
  • Karl Alzner
  • Marcus Johansson
Ribeiro, Poti, and Hendricks all would have walked (like they did), and none of the high-profile minor leaguers would have been signed. The Caps were pretty quiet on the UFA front. Basically, the bottom line is no Tyson Strachan (no....)

On the RFA front, Alzner is re-signed for $2,570,000 and Johansson is re-signed for $1,800,000. That leaves Mr. Potato $1,715,000 to sign somebody else (remember, we still have Jeff Schultz for 1M). Unfortunately, Mikhail Grabovski says no thanks to that, and the Caps instead sign Nazem Kadri for $1,715,000, leaving nothing in the bank (this is assuming the Leafs don't sign him, which they haven't yet).

Here is GMGM's final roster:
Johansson(assuming re-signed)-Backstrom-Ovechkin
Erat-Grabovski-Brouwer
Chimera-Laich-Fehr
Perreault-Beagle-Ward
Green-Carlson
Alzner-Erskine
Hillen-Oleksy
Holtby
Neuvirth

Here is the potato's final roster:
Johansson-Backstron-Ovechkin
Erat-Laich-Brouwer
Chimera-Kadri-Fehr
Perreault-Beagle-Ward
Green-Carlson
Alzner-Erskine
Hillen-Oleksy
Holtby
Neuvirth

The bottom line is, while Caps fans may be disgruntled with GMGM, he still did better than Mr. Potato here. Not only did he sign a player with arguably more talent than Kadri, he will still probably have a few hundred thousand dollars left once Johansson is re-signed to potentially do some more stuff for the Caps. All in all, GMGM is better than a potato.

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