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In the meantime, feel free to join our Discord ServerThe problem is essentially every decision he made to give them one last run was the wrong one, and some people expect that he’s going to suddenly figure out how to make the right moves when it is needed despite all the data we have about his career being the opposite.Basically what everyone with a brain knew already with Dubi in season 1.
Even if he made better moves in summer '23, that team wasn't taking out Florida in a best of 7. So it doesn't bother me.The problem is essentially every decision he made to give them one last run was the wrong one, and some people expect that he’s going to suddenly figure out how to make the right moves when it is needed despite all the data we have about his career being the opposite.
Dubas interview starts at 26 mins. He confirms that his mandate was take one last run with the core in his first offseason and if that didn't work transition to a rebuild.
I don’t think anyone really thinks it would have. The point is he did a horrible job, yet people think he somehow is going to become a good GM now.Even if he made better moves in summer '23, that team wasn't taking out Florida in a best of 7. So it doesn't bother me.
Hextall did way too much damage for that.
Well he's won like 70-80% of the trades imo. Drafting well, by all appearances.I don’t think anyone really thinks it would have. The point is he did a horrible job, yet people think he somehow is going to become a good GM now.
It would have just been cool to at least avoid hand cuffing the team for the immediate future with bad contracts. Some of them very easily predictable.
My isssue is that he’s having the same problems that he did in Toronto: terrible goalie analysis, sticking by a coach clearly well past his expiration date, and generally overpaying guys on long term deals.Well he's won like 70-80% of the trades imo. Drafting well, by all appearances.
Just a question of chilling on the bad long term signings, and not catering to Sully's requests for trash bottom-sixers. If he does that, he can be a good GM.
I don't think anyone predicted Graves to be this poor. He was coming off a strong season. But yeah his term demands and the team's position didn't line up. Unnecessary risk.
Dubas interview starts at 26 mins. He confirms that his mandate was take one last run with the core in his first offseason and if that didn't work transition to a rebuild.
We don't know that firing Sully is even an option. FSG adore him. Dubas has already clarified that he had a mandate in year 1. We can't assume he has full autonomy now. It's more likely that he doesn't based on how much FSG interfere.My isssue is that he’s having the same problems that he did in Toronto: terrible goalie analysis, sticking by a coach clearly well past his expiration date, and generally overpaying guys on long term deals.
He hasn’t learned anything.
Will 100% agree on that one. Even when he fired him at the end of the season, Sullivan gave him hell over it.Not a lot of revisionist history in the absurdity of watching your season circle the drain almost solely due to a horrible PP and never even considering firing the coach in charge of it. That’s indefensible.
Friendly reminder that Todd Reirden is so respected that he’s still unemployed.
We will see on the rebuilding front. Positive progress has been made there. He may do a good job on that front. Even if he does, I don’t have confidence that he will be able to build an actual contending team from that.We don't know that firing Sully is even an option. FSG adore him. Dubas has already clarified that he had a mandate in year 1. We can't assume he has full autonomy now. It's more likely that he doesn't based on how much FSG interfere.
I care a lot more about what he's doing with our goalie prospects than whatever we get out of our main goalies now. They weren't gonna change the course of anything.
Blomqvist got his chance this year, which I approve of. Murashov is being properly developed.
I still would rather have Dubas for a rebuild than a lot of other GM's. I don't think they woulda replenished this prospect pool as well, or fixed Wilkes to this extent.
And I don't think a replacement would draft better either.