2024-25 Roster Thread #1: The Beginninging

[Chicken N Raffls]

I don’t think we talk enough about how they fired the previous GM, no one on his staff, replaced said GM with an internal candidate and no formal interview process and expected everything to be fine and dandy.

And was also easily predictable in real time.

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[bleachdrinker]

Erik Johnson trade continuing to pay dividends in the standings this year.

 

[Tarpongg]

I don’t think we talk enough about how they fired the previous GM, no one on his staff, replaced said GM with an internal candidate and no formal interview process and expected everything to be fine and dandy.

The predictable next chapter in this fake rebuild will be this off season, after attendance drops off a cliff, when the mandate to contend for the playoffs comes. They will be trading draft capital and chasing every free agent.

 

[deadhead]

I remember when Fletcher was fired and O'Connor was sure that this was just the beginning in a major housecleaning. Still waiting.

Players gone from 2022-23:

[Braun, Brown, MacEwen traded at TDL]
JVR, Hayes
Lemieux
Provorov, TDA
Hart
Allison, Laczynksi, Willman, Bellows out of the league

Older players left from that team: Couts (29), Laughton (28), Deslauriers (31), Seeler (29), Risto (28)
Only players added: Hathaway, Poehling, E Johnson

Not much to "house clean." Seeler and Hathaway didn't have that much value, Deslauriers, Risto unmoveable with their contracts.
So the only two credible moves were to trade TK and Laughton.

 

[Hanover Fist]

Players gone from 2022-23:

[Braun, Brown, MacEwen traded at TDL]
JVR, Hayes
Lemieux
Provorov, TDA
Hart
Allison, Laczynksi, Willman, Bellows out of the league

Older players left from that team: Couts (29), Laughton (28), Deslauriers (31), Seeler (29), Risto (28)
Only players added: Hathaway, Poehling, E Johnson

Not much to "house clean." Seeler and Hathaway didn't have that much value, Deslauriers, Risto unmoveable with their contracts.
So the only two credible moves were to trade TK and Laughton.

Only two guys that would get you something in return. They resigned TK and kept Laughton until his value tanked…. go figure