re wings will win golchowy alchemy chem utoronto ca gerald olchowy writes bryan murray has done very little as gm yzerman fedorov cheveldae chaisson the whole russian strategy was a product of the previous gm murray has made a couple of decent trades that s about it that would hardly rank him as the best gm wasn t primeau murray s first decision as gm gerald there are many teams in the nhl who have taken a liking to russian players the whole russian strategy is not specific to detroit or to devellano who was gm before murray what the previous gm also did was to trade away several players who have gone on to do well with other teams most notably in my memory murray craven who had a few very good years with philly after leaving here also it s not the volume of trades that will necessarily improve a team but the quality of them trading adam oates for bernie federko was just plain stupid even if federko used to be a great player at one time most of murray s trades have worked significantly to the wings advantage with those that didn t being soured mainly by injury to the players involved such as troy crowder who suffered back problems from which he never really recovered put scotty bowman pat burns or any of the other better coaches in the league behind the bench of this detroit team and they could beat anybody randy
