The Shocking Truth Behind the NHL’s Longest-Tenured Worst GM Revealed
Fired: November 2000
In between: Yes, Houle just gets in under the wire, clocking in at five years and a month. He had more on-ice success than most of the names on this list, making the playoffs in each of his first three years and even winning a round in 1998. Of course, he also took over a team that was just two years removed from a Cup, so maybe expectations should have been high.
But none of that really matters, because Houle will always be remembered as the GM who traded away arguably the greatest goalie of all time for a handful of magic beans just a few weeks into the job. There was more to that story than just a GM making a bad move — a lot more – but it seemed bad at the time and isn’t looking any better three decades later.
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