The Shocking Truth Behind the NHL’s Longest-Tenured Worst GM Revealed
Signature move: Was there one? I guess you could say getting two firsts from Tampa for Yanni Gourde.
Bottom line: In the end, I don’t think he counts. But he deserves a mention.
7. Michael Barnett, Coyotes
Hired: August 2001, when he followed longtime client Wayne Gretzky to Arizona as a rookie GM
Fired: April 2007
In between: The Coyotes made the playoffs in Barnett’s first year, winning one game before being knocked aside by the Sharks. That was it for the postseason, as the team dropped to just 67 points by Barnett’s last year. That said, it would be fair to mention that anyone running the Coyotes during this time period had the deck stacked against them.
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