re sharks kingston fired in article apr adobe com snichols adobe com sherri nichols writes in article apr leland stanford edu terry garfield stanford edu terry wong writes i think that jack ferreira s firing eventually led to kingston s firing you mention consistency of vision i think the sharks lost that with the loss of ferreira there has never been a headed g m that has ever worked you need one person making the personnel decisions at the top not management by committee the conventional wisdom from around the league is that ferreira would have made the moves that would have fielded a better product on the ice how exactly would ferreira accomplished this the three headed gm ship has taken a lot of heat but nobody s explained how things would have been any different had ferreira still been there would ferreira have made more trades who would have he had traded would he have made fewer trades who should not have been traded i think the three headed gm s guiding principle was to keep veterans in favor of youngsters only if they offered a significant advantage at the end of last season the contracts of several veterans with somewhat maginal contributions fenton bozek anderson and a couple others i can t remember were bought out the idea was that youngsters could play almost as well and had the potential to improve where these older guys did not and they traded mullen because he wanted to go not because he wasn t good enough but i think they were a bit too optimistic in thinking they could make up for his contributions an example from this season skriko was brought in on a trial basis but not kept because of his age i thought he was a decent contributor worth keeping around the youth movement has its advantages look at gaudreau who might still be in kc if more veterans had been kept around but you have to find the right balance steve cole steve sep stanford edu apple sep steve department of geophysics stanford university stanford ca
