4 Signings That Got A GM FIRED

[@RobTalksHockey]

What is your teams WORST signing in team history?!

[@arandomguyontheinternet3520]

david backes.

[@sportskids1541]

Frans Nielsen or Justin ablekater take your pick

[@thyOG]

skinner

[@chuck3175]

Rick Dipietro

[@aceruser11]

Loui Erikkson is pretty bad, But Messier signed to Vancouver was horrific

[@thatguy108]

He is really good he deserves to have more subs

[@bripbleu6561]

Yeah he’s under rated for sure

[@joepettibone]

@S A He can take Sam's spot

[@ItsAutoMattic]

Yo Rob, how about a video on players that took a team friendly contact that led to playoff success? Love the content

[@Matthews34]

8:24 ,27.5M AAV, wow bolland was overpaid by 25M dollars oof

[@Matthews34]

RTH still and will always be the legend tho

[@oscarlevin5952]

@@Matthews34 I think he meant $5.5 Mil for AAV

[@mapleleafsfan27]

I know Bolland was offered an extension with the leafs rumours were it was close to 2M per year and I thought that was nuts. When I heard about him signing in Florida I honestly thought TSN made a mistake on the numbers

[@xx11xx11xx]

He should have paid them to play

[@sportsfan3236]

Supposed to be doing school work but I would rather watch rob

[@krazychallenges4436]

Sports Fan31 Lol same.

[@kannabiswithjaydos9917]

same here lmao

[@MrLT3685]

Rick DiPietro. My teams worst signing will always be DiPietro because the NHL has made signing something worse illegal under current salary cap rules.

[@deleteduser6074]

I dont think thats fair, DiPietro actually played decently well and the contract wasn't too bad if he kept playing at that level and got no better... injuries derailed his career, which is too bad. Edit - 4.5 for an okay starting goalie wasn't bad then and isn't bad now Edit - just as an aside I think the Yashin contract was worse.

[@pauia2074]

@@deleteduser6074 stfu dipietro is the worst contract in the nhl

[@deleteduser6074]

@@pauia2074 you're wrong

[@floridaman451]

Alexi Yashin is up their too

[@forgottenfamily]

@@deleteduser6074 DiPietro's best season was a .919, his second best was a .911. Those are ok numbers worthy of a 4.5M contract. In between those two seasons, he had a .900. His third best season was a .902, his fourth best was .901 and his fifth best was the aforementioned .900. These are more in line with a career backup. Even more damning: the year he signed the contract was the year of the .900. By that point, he had one season of .911 which is a low tier starter and a sophomore slump and the Islanders offered him the world. Why? What justifies that decision? You don't offer a mid-range player 15 years, you offer a star and while both scenarios are equally likely to blow up on you, at least the star has proven his talent. DiPietro is by far the worst player to be given a 10+ year contract. Yashin, for as bad as that contract aged, at least had numbers to justify the contract. DiPietro didn't.

[@Danfromoverthere]

I’m still laughing at the Reinhardt trade with islanders. As a fan thank you Edmonton

[@centaur2656]

🤬

[@Hockeybanger]

Goodluck trying to sign barzal with 3 million in cap

[@taylormartin2008]

@@Hockeybanger johnny boychuk is done and on LTIR

[@Hockeybanger]

@@taylormartin2008 you think barzal is going to sign for 6 or 7 million and then you got beauvillier next year.

[@Danfromoverthere]

@@Hockeybanger lol! A little bitter? Barzal isn’t going anywhere. Islanders have a real GM. And if you do your research you’d know that there are quite a few things going on so as a fan I’m completely confident.

[@habsfanhighlights1317]

RTH uploads when I’m eating timmies 👍 it’s gonna be a good day

[@ObiWannaBrick31]

Ken holland signing Justin Abdelkader to a 4.25M AAV contract

[@Adri_Unsung]

Peace out ken lmao

[@deleteduser6074]

Ouf ya thats a rough one, one of the worst

[@SirManfly]

@@Adri_Unsung Ken is doing fine in Edmonton, showing some patience that has sadly been lost on many previous GMs.

[@Thrashman-ye4cf]

@@SirManfly Ken Holland gets too crazy with his patience though. As a wings fan, there’s been so many prospects over the years he let rot in the AHL for too long, then they came over past their prime and weren’t used to the faster pace of the NHL. For Oilers fans sake, I hope he doesn’t do that there.

[@ToddSnow]

@@Thrashman-ye4cf oh damn, that’s no good to hear. As an Oilers fan, he is already doing this with our prospects...We have atleast 2 prospects who should be on the team NOW. Our team isn’t deep. Bouchard and McLeod/Holloway should be playing

[@jamessanderson3621]

Loving the channel. I'm a relatively new fan of Ice Hockey and the NHL. This channel is really broadening my knowledge. Keep up the good stuff 👍

[@michaelfortunato3117]

I just wanna say, GREAT content on your channel. You have a great narrative style, passion about the sport, and good thorough research. Keep it up!

[@guyami8892]

Love how the Leaf players are also the alternate captains as well. Such a Leafs thing to happen.

[@jivedrobot]

Rob's the GOAT, love his vids

[@LudwigBeefoven]

When David Clarkson was signed by the Leafs, all the TSN experts raved about the "intangibles" that Clarkson would bring to the roster. The problem with "intangibles"is that it is intangible to know in advance if the signing will pan out or not.

[@gerble36]

The first thing you did wrong is listen to the shills on TSN... haha. These people are not experts in anything but yapping on what they think the fans want to hear, rather then actual hockey insight and knowledge. Sports Net are no better either.

[@isaiahach]

@@gerble36 especially with Button claiming that the Habs wouldn't win a game against the Leafs during last years playoffs. he then continued undermining the habs in every round but was proven wrong every time lol until the SC final that is

[@marcpell133]

That picture of Pierre Mcguire will never get old lol

[@philipglover3295]

That shot of Elias Petterson made him look like Draco Malfoy 🤣

[@MiraSubieGirl]

He will tell his father about this!

[@Brandon4916]

Great video as always rob, always loving the content

[@krisrolph1058]

NAIL in the coffin i caught that Rob, lmao

[@wyattpressley8745]

you do a really good job putting these videos together

[@Khz88]

Edmonton fan here. Well, let's talk about Chiarelli. The first week he is on the job at the NHL draft, he made Reinhardt trade; then, he sent Heart trophy winner, Taylor Hall for a second pair defenceman Adam Larrson, immediately signed Lucic a bullet prove deal for seven years, 6 million per; After he flips Eberle for Strome, he sent Strom for an AHL player, Spooner. Obviously, he never talked to coaches for the players he acquires, because coaches sit Spooner on scratch. In order to give him some mins to play, Chiarelli sent Drake Caggiula to Chicago and acquired Brandon Manning and his two years awful contract... Another year as GM of Oilers, this guy will put Mcdavid on the trade table...

[@joshuabernard8035]

Least he resigned Drai

[@Rometiklan]

Yeah, It's got to be Loui Eriksson for the Canucks although I still cheer for this guy. For the most part, the Canucks have been pretty fiscally responsible in their history. The money they gave Messier might have been more than they bargained for, however. Can't be too critical of Nonis afterall, he brought Luongo to the Canucks. Which reminds me of his bad contract with the recapture penalty, but that was Gillis' fault. Thanks for posting, Rob.

[@cannoliscards]

Nail in the coffin and that edit had me dead

[@JackSav6]

I don’t get it Oh nvm

[@karmavores]

“Nail (Yakupov) in the coffin” clever editing!

[@isaacwest276]

Interesting to see how much the Oilers have turned around with Holland and a Florida with Zito.

[@jaredsmith1829]

Love the intro, also the content is fireeee🔥

[@RobTalksHockey]

Thanks my man!!

[@iconicbrothersW]

Can you do off the board picks that became busts

[@krazychallenges4436]

Two words. Nail Yakupov.

[@iconicbrothersW]

@@krazychallenges4436 i don't think that was an "off the board pick" because he was projected to go first overall lets take an example of blake wheeler projected 3 rd rounder tooken 5th overall

[@Odysseus38]

Loui looks like he hasn't broken a sweat in 3 years

[@williamwoodsworth441]

Man, the Josh Anderson signing is SO SIMILAR to the David Clarkson signing. Except for the fact that Clarkson had a decent year before the signing and Anderson didn't. But the way you said, "bottom six grinder," and "a career high thirty goals" made me truly expect you to say "SOUND FAMILIAR HABS FANS?!?!? HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!" Anyway, great video Rob, they are getting better all the time!

[@TotalCruiserBabe]

Josh got injured...

[@munkeslamik2708]

I didn’t get it I always thought domi was better

[@williamwoodsworth441]

@@munkeslamik2708 Yeah, and they gave up a third rounder before signing Anderson to 5.5 million over seven years.

[@RobTalksHockey]

Funny enough, when I was making this video I thought the same thing haha. Regardless, Anderson is younger and has a much higher ceiling in my opinion.

[@williamwoodsworth441]

@@RobTalksHockey True about the "higher ceiling" but Anderson never had 30 goals, and the year before the signing Clarkson had an adjusted (because it was the lockout) 29 goals while Anderson had one goal and only one goal adjusted.

[@CplSpider]

I love your vids, but I hope you would include more audio from the clips you show. The one at the beginning of this video was comedy gold. I would love to see more of that, personally.

[@Notaboulder]

Koskinen is actually good and is worth the 4.5 cap hit. The only time a impulse signing worked

[@thegourmetgolfer5544]

I think Florida fans are okay with the Bobrovsky signing. Admittedly, it was a risky contract though

[@SkyTheKoala]

Subbed. A lot of good info. Great video mate.

[@drcaughlin]

A chill went down my spine when you said David Nonis

[@sportsfan3236]

You forgot to include Rick Dipeitro.

[@MrLT3685]

DiPietro didn't get Garth Snow fired. Oddly enough refusing to do that deal DID get Neil Smith fired.

[@sportsfan3236]

@@MrLT3685 true

[@CJEstradaMartinez]

Fired in the middle of a game? I mean, damn. That's a first in NHL history for general managers.

[@JT-gi8rx]

Imagine if the Oilers has gotten Barzal...and had traded picks and/or prospects for a good defenceman like Ekholm or Weber or even Subban. They’d be serious cup contenders. What a 1-2 punch their top 2 lines would be, McDavid on 1 and Barzal on the other...🤯

[@bison8745]

To be fair,Clarkson and Robidas' contracts were horrible but Dion Phaneuf at that time was seen as a franchise player who would be top D for the next decades. I was picking him up in my teams whenever i played NHL games lol

[@sadrevolution]

I was watching HNIC the night Chiarelli was fired. To a man, all those panelists (Hrudey, Friedman, etc.) said the Koskinen extension was an order from Edmonton brass and wasn't even the GMs idea. Don't get me wrong, Chiarelli left the Oilers worse than they should have been under his tenure, but I don't think the Koskinen extension is what did him in.

[@ryanparsons8642]

LA Kings: Ilya Kovalchuk. Just didn’t work out for either side. Should’ve let the Blues have him

[@fourwinged]

Clarkson didn't have the "perfect season" when he was signed... he played with the NHL's best player agent at the time, Patrick Elias, who makes his line mates a ton of cash, by making them seem like better players than they are. The reason why Elias was the best "player agent" in this regard is because he remained so ridiculously under the radar while doing it, as opposed to guys like Crosby who makes Kunitz look good, everyone knew it was Crosby, but then you're like... why did Arnott play so well? Gionta? Gomez? Sykora? ... boy wonder Elias! Clarkson was on the second line in NJ and played PP in the Simmonds/Cicirelli role as a banger in front of the net, and when you're playing with someone like Elias, you score lots of goals. NJ's worst signing ever was on the back of losing Clarkson; they signed Clowe to an albatross.

[@nyrangers124]

Love the vids man keep it up

[@keithlangman2081]

The sheer mention of David Nonis legit had me burst out laughing (leafs fan)

[@richardtherichard26]

You’re doing great vids bro. Really interesting untapped content. Kudos, you’ve earned a sub in me keep up the stellar work ❤️

[@amecarethqc6652]

One that comes to mind is Karl Alzner, an ok defenceman at best who signed for like 4.5 mill average for 6 years I think. Sorry for my grammar

[@mattconti3655]

Jonathan Ericsson, Darren helm, Justin abdelkader, Stephen Weiss, Daniel alfredsson. List goes on for Kenny Holland

[@andrewcook1950]

I'm a Penguins fan from Buffalo, the Pens worst is probably Jack Johnson and the Sabres is Okposo

[@TheMrTwizter]

As a flyers fan, I dont even know how to answer the question of Worst signings lol. They once signed bryzgalov to a contract that doesn't expire until the heat death of the universe, that's one

[@Ace96x10]

The irony with Cherrelli was that he got fired just after signing Kostinen, which I thought then, and and think now, was a flat out good signing.

[@Dutchovenderlinde]

Rob spitting 🔥🔥🔥 today 🤣🤣

[@themikeygshow1271]

Dear Edmonton, thank you for giving us a year in the playoffs and a hart winning player for a little while.

[@marcelmoreau2733]

No Rick Depietro for Islanders. Think it was a 15yr contract and dont think he played enough games for even 2 full seasons worth. 67.5mil contract, 1st goalie drafted 1st overall, 50 games in 5years. Bought out in 2013 with 8yrs on contract and still being paud ovrr 1.5mill a year until 2029.

[@Ryan-sf8gb]

Hey I really like the vids, but one thing I’d recommend is instead of always saying “we would begin to see steep regression” and “the Oilers would begin to panic” most of the time, it’s probably better to just say “we saw steep regression” and “the Oilers began to panic”. Could just be me, but I think it would sound a lot better and more natural

[@christophermerlot3366]

It does. You're basically calling him out on a form of passive voice.

[@Ryan-sf8gb]

@@christophermerlot3366 so it’s not just me? I really like the things he covers and brings up but the way he talks about stuff in the past is just *off*

[@RobTalksHockey]

Thanks for the feedback!

[@importednascar]

So, a GM that I have never heard of for my Leafs, due to me starting to watch in 2017-2018, was the one behind the David Clarkson contract? Well... It can't get any worse, can it? *Nylander and Marner contracts* Oh.

[@arandomguyontheinternet3520]

wait until ovi signs with toronto. (which is not gonna happen.)

[@importednascar]

@@arandomguyontheinternet3520 Ovechkin in Toronto?! I don't want that! Keep him in Washington!

[@arandomguyontheinternet3520]

@@importednascar i said it’s not gonna happen.

[@arandomguyontheinternet3520]

@Comment Hacker damn right.

[@dukestorm8813]

I think you made an error on the Dave Borland one because it says 27.5 million Aav love your videos

[@dukestorm8813]

Bolland

[@RobTalksHockey]

Yes I did haha

[@LudwigBeefoven]

How come Milan Lucic at Edmonton is not in there? You just didn't want to pile on Chiarelli? I get it.

[@munkeslamik2708]

He could have a whole documentary made about his shit moves and signings

[@bangyahead1]

Stars - Sean Avery. Co-GM's Hull and Neiuwedyk didnt last long after that.

[@monstersofthemidw100]

Where’s Paul Fenton on this list lol. Still can’t believe that clown

[@viperswhip7706]

Let's be honest Rob, Benning didn't get credit for drafting, his scouts did. It's also why we aren't sure of Benning, he keeps trading our first-round picks after the scouts fled to Mini.

[@fubartotale3389]

You should do the flip side of this, free agent signings that ensured the barn would be filled for a decade. Say, for example Chicago + Marion Hossa.

[@monkeychimpsr.7046]

Good on bolland for becoming the highest paid player in nhl history

[@supermadhawk100]

I tried block Nonis as a leaf fan I agreed that he was one of the worst gm the leafs ever had when I started as a fan. love the video

[@keir13]

As a lifelong Canucks fan, I have to admit, we are the worst fans in the league (other than maybe the delusional Leafs fans out there). Remember the “Fire Gillis” chants just a couple seasons after he won GM of the Year? Burke wasn’t re-signed after swindling every other team in the league to land both Henrik and Daniel Sedin at the draft. Even our beloved Pat Quinn was fired as GM. Every GM has a bad contract here or there but I like Benning (not as a person though as he has the personality of a damp dishcloth). Getting Pettersson and Hughes is one thing but getting Boeser at 23 and finding guys like Gaudette later in the draft are worth it so long as he’s able to re-sign the young guys.

[@unbiasedbruinsfanwhocanbeb7968]

What’s weird about chiarelli is the fact that he was a borderline good gm in Boston. He made the lucic, Horton trades. And iced consistent, Stanley cup contenders every year. I’d 100% have 2006-2013 charelli over Sweeney

[@RobTalksHockey]

Definitely! Chiarelli’s horrible track record is mostly attributed to the changing game in my opinion. Around 2012-2014 we would see a stark emphasis on skill and skating. And Peter loves big slow guys haha. I mean Barzal pick for a big slow Reinhart and Lucia says it all

[@unbiasedbruinsfanwhocanbeb7968]

@@RobTalksHockey Yeah he didn’t love the flashy game that Edmonton had going on, exactly why Kessel, Hamilton, and seguin were traded. It worked pretty well in Boston, just didn’t work in Edmonton. Love the vids by the way, keep up the good work!

[@elwizschold]

Bolland got 27,5m AAV... what a winner! ;) But put to shame by Bobrovski though.. 70m AAV for 7 years, 490 million dollar contract!

[@acerpro101]

This year Bob bounced back and is looking like the vezina winner at this point

[@1bert719]

As an Oiler fan I'm genuinely concerned about goaltending with mediocre Koskinen and old man Smith. I haven't had this kind of worry since we had a pair of backups as starters in Bob Essensa and Mikhail Shtalenkov. I liked both guys but not in tandem. Though that season at least bagged Tommy Salo. The last consistent starter Edmonton have had. (In my humble opinion)

[@William_G]

If Bobrovski has another bad year imma feel so bad for Florida

[@waxieman]

Made no sense when you draft Knight that you sign Bob for 7 years.

[@TonySchiavone6]

he had a worse season, how they made the playoffs with the worst starting goalie in the NHL via stats is amazing.

[@Persholm1]

What do you mean? Where would we be without Loui Eriksson?

[@chrisdavis273]

Keep um comin’ Rob

[@thaddcorbett2148]

As an Oil fan I really don't think our worst signing was Lucic. I think it was Horcoff. We resigned him after we lost in the finals and the team new that his shoulders were done and that he'd never be the same player again. Yet they still threw crazy money at him. Never had a chance nor did he even make an attempt to live up to said contract.

[@munkeslamik2708]

Lucic wasn’t our worst we would’ve kept him but he was so damn slow

[@lmskiller]

Dale Talons 10 years in Florida was also not all him. He wasn't the GM for a few years and They even said he didn't do contract negotiations until recently. I think the Vegas Draft killed Florida a little as they lost some good players. Brobrofski isn't a bad signing. The Panthers team needs some better team defense also. The Chirelli firing was a must. He did some REALLY stupid things in Edmonton, I'm an Oilers fan, Trading Hall for Larson( To Sign Lucic), Trading Eberle for Strome, #16 pick for Reinhart was dumb also as Reinhart had no foot speed, and the Islanders selecting Barzel who is a stud Centerman. I know the Oilers would have needed to move Pieces because of McDavid but I think they might not have had a chance at McDavid if they actually built there defense earlier and get a Goalie.

[@gerble36]

Edmonton's problem wasn't their goalies. It was defence from the very start. No goalie in the league would have survived Edmonton's net and come out unscathed. Even now, defence is very suspect.

[@DM4C]

4:13 😂I see what you did there

[@sportskids1541]

Loui erikson hands down will pass Gretzky on the all time point list! The legend of vancouver

[@sportskids1541]

@Comment Hacker right

[@nikolasg8194]

You mean he has to pass nail yakupov he broke grezky points in one game

[@sportskids1541]

@@nikolasg8194 you are so right! I completely forgot about him. That is going to be hard to do.

[@KrazyLambProductions]

He will not sadly.

[@FTCoconutman]

Me as a redwings fan- "It's cool man, we know we suck lately."

[@BAMBAM23181]

It's call rebuild bud I'm fine with it

[@dougjohnson3200]

*cries in Red Wings* Holland had a bunch of questionable trades and signings, but there was a lot of pressure from the Ilichs to keep the playoff streak going.

[@Darthoil]

If you think the Koskinen was all Chiarelli decision. That was made by other Oilers management.

[@niloadimari5859]

John furgusen jr for 1st round pick which would be tukka rask for Andrew Raycroft. Now you wonder why the leafs can’t win lol

[@deleteduser6074]

In my opinion both the Kessel signing and Marleau signing were worse than Phaneuf and Clarkson. Kessel we are still paying for and Marleau cost the leafs a 1st round pick to get rid of. Clarkson cost money, physical dollars not cap space, to get rid of and Phaneuf brought back things and we got rid of the entire contract. How good does the kapanen contract look when you add Kessel's retained cap hit onto it.

[@colinmeier8140]

I know this is football... but this should be the case when the bears decided to sign trubinsky instead of mahomes, yes, the bears had mahomes in their grasp

[@Just____STEVE7]

RAWRRAWR BABY! FIRE TALON MOVE THE TEAM

[@xs8002]

Ville Leino, Christian Ehrhoff, Jeff Skinner... the list goes on...

[@nikolasg8194]

Kyle okposo

[@nikolasg8194]

Matt moulson

[@xs8002]

@@nikolasg8194 Carter Hutton...

[@leafsfanforever2896]

All courtesy of *”Hey Jason Botterill!”*

[@gabripollo2607]

Sbisa, gudbranson, beagle, sutter, ferland and co.its not just eriksson

[@reflirt]

Isn’t 7 yr @ 70 aav a 490m deal?

[@Rwrtnbf]

Makes it understandable why Columbus couldn’t re-sign him 😊

[@yootoobe1790]

and also the Patrick Roy trade. damn you, Rejean Houle. And Mario Tremblay too.

[@gidzmobug2323]

Tremblay might have kept Roy in Montreal had he not pulled antics like leaving him out to dry for 11 goals.

[@yootoobe1790]

@@gidzmobug2323 they had prior beef from when they were teammates years prior. They HATED each other. that relationship was doomed from the start. That was part of why Mario did that, to show Patrick that he was the boss. And it backfired.

[@gidzmobug2323]

@@yootoobe1790 had not known that they had previously been teammates.

[@SushiParty]

As a Canucks fan, this video has made me feel a bit better about some of Benning's questionable decisions.

[@mopground]

I think people really underestimate the devastation he caused. Totally over reacting to the stanley cup loss and wanting to completely change the team dynamic because you lost thr stanley cup.......in a game 7.....or was that gillis?

[@davidtuttle7556]

Just as a reminder that even good GMs can occasionally put up a stinker, GMGM traded Fil Forsberg for 3800 year old Marty Erat.

[@viperswhip7706]

Never, ever, ever sign a free agent who just had a career year in their contract year. Fuck that, never. You might hit a home run once in a while, but it's not bloody likely.

[@matthewpolster8733]

Honestly, as a preds fan. One of, if not the worst signing for us is Duchene. Getting paid way too much and doing way too little.

[@Spectral_wolf97]

As an oilers fan this hurts

[@markkulchar3986]

As a Canucks fan currently it is Loui but historically it has to be Messier

[@JayRiemenschneider]

Sweeney giving a 50 year old repeatedly concussed Backes 6 per for 5 years set the Bruins back big time and maybe cost them a Cup or 2. It even trumped the god awful Beleskey signing

[@tunnsie]

As a Canucks fan, Nonis infuriated me. He has a basic framework for building a team with a world class goalie but what does he do? Basically nothing. The team is playing defensive hockey knowing it’s their only hope while Nonis dis absolutely nothing to help.

[@YOUPSYCHO]

Any contract given out by Doug Wilson

[@JonathanLau]

As a fan of RTH but not a hockey buff, can someone explain why Loui Erikkson was a terrible deal?

[@theeobeastone5068]

Forgot to mention how Peter Chiarelli dismantled a playoff team by trading off key players who got them to the playoffs.

[@prayforpeace2204]

Good channel. Subbed.

[@LudwigBeefoven]

The Oilers could use Jonas Siegenthaler right now. Skates like the wind and is a bit truculent to boot.

[@1skoob]

Off the top of my head, Mike Matheson in Pittsburgh. They just finally got rid of Johnson, then bring in someone almost as much a liability on the ice and capwise! It makes no sense. Matheson was not good on Florida, and often a healthy scratch. On top of it, they lost Hornqvist. Just a terrible move. For good measure, I'll add Luongo's contract in Vancouver. He's retired, and they're still paying him 3 million a year!

[@krazywotb9179]

Ah yes I didn't know that about Bob, I love him. Not because of Florida but bc I am a Columbus fan

[@alyssinwilliams4570]

HRm. I'm not sure who the Flames worst signing would be.. I'd have to research that

[@PeaceKeepingMissile]

Neal