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Speculation: 2024-2025 General Lightning Discussion II: "Atlanticly" challenged

bov said:
They have cap space this year and continue to bank it for the deadline. TB has been able to make meaningful trades under far more difficult cap constraints than they face now, makes no sense to worry about it. BriseBois' misses have been far more glaring (percentage wise anyway) on the FA side than trades, nobody would even say a thing if it wasn't for Jeannot. That's not a legitimate counter point, as much as people love to bitch about it still. I guess some people chirp the Duclair trade but that wasn't egregious, it was a pretty standard deadline trade. Honestly, that one was probably the most out of character for him in terms of the usual approach. You have to give to get, you don't win anything by sitting on your bum refusing to deal assets. JBB's recent comments paint a pretty clear picture of what's in store, barring a disastrous 2nd half.
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I think the Jeannot trade is the only one that was objectively bad. It's just that it was SO bad.

I don't even think you could call any of the UFA signings bad, really. None of them handcuffed the team.
 
DFC said:
I think the Jeannot trade is the only one that was objectively bad. It's just that it was SO bad.

I don't even think you could call any of the UFA signings bad, really. None of them handcuffed the team.
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That is true, although I'd say Sheary was a pretty bad signing. It's hindsight, but still puzzled me a bit at the time. You can see JBB's logic behind them all but you need some of those buy-low candidates to hit (not as in being physical).

Even Girgensons and Atkinson, I really thought at least one of them would become a real effective bargain but they just don't have much in the tank. I didn't believe it myself at the time, but there were plenty of Flyers and Sabres fans warning about these guys for awhile. Same with Sheary iirc. Not "bad" players, but they just can't accomplish much out there. He seems to target guys of similar profiles hoping they can be cheap semi-replacements for Gourde, Goodrow etc. But we have ended up with a few too many 12-14th forwards instead.

When you take chances its bound to backfire every now and then but I hope JBB is not deterred by the Jeannot trade. For as bad as it's made out to be, he was able to dig himself out of that hole pretty nicely. So I trust his ability to make things right even after a mistake.
 
Florida signed Boqvist as a UFA this offseason, anyone could have had him. I don't think our need for soft one dimensional offensive defensemen has increased since then.
 
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