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San Jose Sharks
Mike Grier Is the Best GM in the NHL — And It’s Not Even Close
Three years ago, the San Jose Sharks were the worst team in hockey. Not bad in a competitive sense, not struggling through a transition year, but genuinely, historically bad. A franchise that had spent the better part of two de…
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- Christopher Hodgson
- Christopher is a hockey writer and is the founder of TheBigFaceoff.com, a hockey analysis publication with over 1,000 articles and 30,000+ views, built around long-form, data-informed coverage of the game. His work has appeared in The Hockey Writers, The Hockey News, Sport Mockery, and Last Word on Hockey, and has been featured alongside Forbes, NHL.com, CBC, and The Athletic on Swift Hockey's official press page. He has conducted written interviews with industry insiders including Jeff Paterson, and contributes analysis spanning trade targets, prospect development, team strategy, and NHL Culture.Christopher approaches hockey journalism through the lens of a historian and philosopher — studying how power, decision-making, and human behavior repeat across centuries, and bringing that depth of thinking to how he analyzes teams, front offices, and the forces that shape the modern game.