The Ultimate Slap in the Face to Jared Bednar. GM Chris MacFarland Season Grade

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The Athletic came out with their "Way Too Early" prediction article Thursday. And while most of it is what you would expect when it comes to winners of awards and trophy's, one was glaring.
When voting on their Jack Adams Award, 15 coaches got votes. Jared Bednar was not one of them. Have we all gone mad!?
We also talk about the best UFAs the Avalanche have signed over the years as well as handing out our final grade to GM Chris MacFarland.
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@richardtherichard26 22 дня назад

This may just be recency bias but in terms of great fa signings im looking directly at Andrew cogliano. I know he was just a 4th liner and he was in the twilight of his career but I think that dude has been a MASSIVE part of this team for the past 3 years. I’m sad to see him go.

@jimlittle5769 25 дней назад

Wait a minute. People are saying Cale Makar had a 'down year'? The man had a career high 90 points, tied for 16th in the NHL. Quinn Hughes, who won the Norris, was 15th in scoring with 2 more points (having played 5 more games). Crazy to think he had a down year.

@kenmerritt738 25 дней назад

give me a cup bednar cool as a cucumber gets the most out of what’s given to him. should have one coach of the year couple times

@Kuba55 25 дней назад

You touched upon a lot in this episode guys 😉 Briefly about MacFarland: thanks for pointing out that he efficiently adjusted the roster at the trade deadline. Thus, we had a true contending team. Come on everybody, we believed they could go all the way. The triple pickle he's in right now: Landy+Nuke+Cap... Not to be envied. The Avs' fans are antsy cause we need another Cup to cement the legacy of this great core we have. It's understandable. But, please appreciate that Avs' GM Team also thinks about the future, and drafting Ilya Nabokov was a wonderful move (wonder if Francouz had something to do with it...). Thanks for the episode! Take care!

@jimlittle5769 25 дней назад

It wouldn't surprise me at all if Utah made the playoffs. Coyotes were 23-22 before the 14 game losing streak (when the rumors started about them leaving creating an obvious distraction). After that, they went on to win to win 13 of the final 23 games. Distractions are gone. Now, in Utah, the team has a new place to play that is set up to accommodate a professional team (as opposed to where the Coyotes played their home games), they drafted well, they brought in some veterans guys who have won and can help lead this young team, and they still have a good amount of cap space to play with.

@ablestarofficial8117 25 дней назад

If Bednar leaves the Avs will go back to being a wild card team.

@matambale 25 дней назад

Great chess moves by Mac. Not every chess piece worked out as *we all thought they would*, but he even corrected those moves efficiently. That's kinda the point, even the moves that didn't work out, seemed like they really should have. When they didn't...boom. It's impossible for every signing to work out, so you keep moving. Gosh, I'd give him an A+++++++ just for bringing the Halifax Moosehead Duo back together AND resigning Drouin for another year.

@dvan7117 25 дней назад

Let's not forget the Avs signing Kariya and Selanne for the 03-04 season. That signing, on paper, looked like putting together one of the stronger teams ever. Unfortunatly injuries to Kariya and Forsburg, Patrick Roy retired, and questionable coaching, led to a very disappointing season.

@qp2044 25 дней назад

Bednar missed the opportunity. The first year where the avs made the 20 game jump was probably the best year, and second was the president's trophy year

@dreamwarriordiary5339 25 дней назад

I don't think we will have many coaches fired this season. I could see the Flames firing Huska.

@LockedOnAvalanche 25 дней назад

Coaches will be fired. It's inevitable. It shouldn't happen at the amount it does every year, but it does. Seems like at least there's 5 or 6 after every year

@t-razz 25 дней назад

Your take is fair but I disagree. MacFarland has hit on a few free agents and has almost completely abandoned draft and develop over the past few years (until this year when we actually had some picks). He has missed on more than he has hit on and constant 1-year free-agent signings put the cap in a bad place. I'd give him a C+ or B...

@LockedOnAvalanche 24 дня назад

I don't think it's fair to put his draft picks in with the argument yet as last year was his first draft as the sole GM.

@RK-fh4bp 24 дня назад

B feels right for McFarland last season because the Avs didn’t get out of the second round and guys like Colton and Wood weren’t amazing signings by any means. Wood in particular didn’t perform to a level expected of a 6 year contract. Not terrible signings by any means, but definitely not good enough to give him an A. Plus, McFarland didn’t address the goalie issues at the trade deadline, which played a role in losing home ice and a possible easier path to the cup. He definitely did a great job for essentially getting Casey and Walker for RyJo, a pick, and Byram. He upgraded the forwards and defense for the playoff run, while dumping RyJo, so that was great. And resigning Casey for a discounted price makes it look even better. All in all, I think it added up to a B, but if he had done just a little more, it could have been an A.

@beardupbeerdown7355 25 дней назад

Jack Adams usually goes to overperforming teams or teams that absolutely annihilated everyone else. Teams meeting expectations won't reward their coach beyond a bit of job security. Watch Roy if the Isles make the playoffs again, even if it's entirely on Varlamov's back.

@LockedOnAvalanche 25 дней назад

The only way Bednar will ever win it is if he goes to another team and then that team performs better than the year before. It's expected of him and the Avs to be in contention so where's the excitement in that? But like I said in the episode, I don't expect him to be at the top of the list anymore, but should he at least be ON the list? 100%. Being left off this is lunacy

@clintonforbes6854 22 дня назад

Luke Richardson has a better chance of winning the Jack Adam's than Jared Bednar? Didn't they just say Richardson was going to get fired mid season? Wtf.

@MrSonordrumr 25 дней назад

How about Theo Fleury?

@LockedOnAvalanche 25 дней назад

He was traded to the Avs

@dvan7117 25 дней назад

That was a trade. Fleury was not a free agent.

@deanschulze3129 25 дней назад

The Colorado sports media needs to stop kissing the ground that Chris MacFarland walks on. His signature move was trading for Casey Mittlestadt who has never even had a 20 goal season. His second best move was giving Mittlestadt a contract for $5.75 million per season. Again, a forward who has never even had a 20 goal season. Mittlestadt is a $2 - $2.5 million per season player with the numbers he's put up so far. McFarland is an underperformer. And, yes Chris, when the GM trades for a player who does nothing like Johanssen and Tatar then he needs to be held accountable for those moves.

@bafriesen 25 дней назад

Good to see someone else who doesn't kiss MacFarland's ass and actually understands that this GM isn't Joe Sakic anymore.

@JohnnyFalco 25 дней назад

Middlestadt was worth it, they are vastly improved with him, and their chances to go deep looked great in April/after the first round. 5.75 is probably a discount as the contract ages, you're kidding yourself asking for that level of productivity at 2-2.5. you don't get that unless someone vastly over performs all expectations and that doesn't happen every signing. Johanssen we can hold him accountable for, but it's bizarre people hate CMac so much, he had a huge hand in the cup team build, and they would have a lot more success since then if it weren't for Nuke/Landy. If those two were playing and the Avs were going deeper each year the CMac haters would be non existent

@LockedOnAvalanche 25 дней назад

Hold him accountable for sure, but also give him the credit for shipping them out as well. I don't understand why the focus is always on bringing them in but not getting them out. And like I said in the episode, we didn't have a problem when the move to bring them in happened. It was only when they didn't work out we get hindsight is 20/20 goggles and want to rip into him for those moves.

@LockedOnAvalanche 25 дней назад

@@bafriesennot everything Sakic touched turned to gold either. We just like to think it did.

@deanschulze3129 24 дня назад

@@LockedOnAvalanche - I don't give MacFarland credit for having to dump players that he brought in. That's poor judgement. Here are a couple of comps in the same salary range as Mittlestadt. William Karlsson makes $5.6 million and scored 30 goals. Adrian Kempe makes $5.5 million and scored 28 goals. Now there are some players in the same salary range who underperformed Mittlestadt, but MacFarland paid way too much for Casey.

@bansheerie4537 25 дней назад

Bednar is not on the list, because he's had a consistently great team these past 5 years or so, and won the Cup in 2022, but not much except that, not even a Conference final appearance. They probably think that when your management consistently builds a good team for you to coach - and it's built around such names as MacKinnon, Makar and Rantanen, no less - the results Bednar has shown were underwhelming, except for that Cup. I personally don't think that Bednar is at fault here, but the Athletic probably thinks that a coach with such an arsenal at his disposal should have done better.

@LockedOnAvalanche 25 дней назад

The Jack Adams is for the regular season though, so how far they have made it in the playoffs is irrelevant. Even if they did include the postseason, this list has 15 coaches on it. They want to say half the league's coaches are better than Bednar? Not for a minute.

@bansheerie4537 25 дней назад

@@LockedOnAvalanche Yeah, I get that it's for regular season. But do you honestly think that the people making these predictions or the people ultimately voting are completely unbiased by playoff results? Anyway, as I guessed above, the main reason behind their thinking is probably that the more star-studded a team is, the less its coach is responsible for the results. In any case, the Jack Adams is a crap award by default. When a team with high expectations and a well-entrenched coach is running smoothly, well, it is as expected and the coach is "simply doing his job", but when a shitty team gets revived by a new coach, it's always "wow, that guy is a genius". Thus this particular trophy will always be drifting towards those who "defied expectations and turned the things around".

@LockedOnAvalanche 25 дней назад

@@bansheerie4537 as far as the playoffs and voting go, writers must have their votes in before the playoffs even start for the very reason not to be swayed by playoff performance. So it doesn't come into play. And a lot of the guys on this list aren't even playoff contenders. Which gets to the very real part of your point in that the award isn't for the leagues best coach, it almost always goes to a new coach of a new team who made them better than the coach they just replaced. Case in point, 4 of the first 5 coaches on this list are brand new to their teams. And I'm not even saying Bednar needs to top the list. All I'm saying is it's inconceivable to me these writers think half the league's coaches are better. I would argue against your argument that he hasn't done much with a start studded team, because he very much has. He consistently has them at the top of the league and division standings. If he was struggling to get production out of them then that's another thing. And we could have the discussion all day long about who gets the credit. Is it the players actually playing or is it the system that they play in. The answer is both. So I don't want to minimize Bednars effect on this team simply because they have superstars. Of course, he's gotta coach an entire team beyond just the stars.

@bansheerie4537 25 дней назад

@@LockedOnAvalanche I agree with everything you've just said. Just for clarification, though - it is not MY opinion that Bednar underperforms with the star-studded team he's been given, it's what I think THEIR thinking is.

@LockedOnAvalanche 25 дней назад

@@bansheerie4537Well they're a bunch of stupid poopy heads

@EnjoyerofMiserableMarinersBsbl 25 дней назад

Trading a first rounder for Sean Walker who ended up leaving for nothing alone gives him a C. That was a terrible move when he made it and it’s even worse now. I liked Walker and I thought he was a terrific player but trading a first for him to get someone out of here that YOU traded for? Nah man, that was awful. I also don’t like the Mittelstadt contract. They are overpaying that dude for proving essentially nothing thus far in his career. And as far as McFarland “getting the Avs they help they need” this offseason, where is that? The Avs should be exploring trades since they have no cap space. They should strongly be considering trading Mikko to see if they can get 3 players for him, but I said that on a previous video.

@lj291261 24 дня назад

B for MacFarland? You cannot be serious. He and he alone responsible for last season’s early exit as he again failed to add the depth - see FLA and EDM - that is needed to go to the final. But even this incompetent GM, even worse than Bownan was in CHI, topped himself this offseason. What he added to the team is a bunch of nobodies and cheap losers. Spending way too much on an overrated Mittelstadt and wasting numerous chances of hiring exceptional players for little $ brought the Avs back to a one-line offense team. As we can forget about Landeskog and the Drug Russian (Cocaine Val) this team has been finally ruined and managed out of the cup contenders. If there is anyone who still wants to get $ on this team to win the cup next season, please give the money to a charity and do some good stuff with it rather than throwing it in the trash with this “team.” Of course, there will come a day when either Mr Sakic or Mr Kroehnke finally realize what an amateur fills their GM position but until then the word for this Avalanche team for the seasons MacFlushy will be the GM is F-A-I-L-U-R-E! The only $ I would bet on this team would be that they will not make the playoffs this season. God forbid MacKinnon or Makar will have a major injury and this team is toast. I have never seen a GM of a professional sports team who has the stupid idea that you pay a few guys the big bucks, for some way too much, and then you hope that you add the rest with garbage under $1M and be so naive to believe that you can win the cup. 🫣🫣🫣🫣🫣🫣🫣🫣🫣😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 But you two just keep on believing MacFlushy is doing a good job. Just look at CBJ. What a “top team” he left there before joining the Avs.

@duncanmathers76 25 дней назад

Bednar's not on the list because he has an elite team and still didn't win shit. Not the cup, not the conference, not the division. Take away the cup in 2022 and we have largely underachieved with him as coach, given the talent at his disposal

@LockedOnAvalanche 25 дней назад

Can't you make that argument for any team? Take away the Cup and they are underachievers? I don't understand that argument.