Would love to grab another top 5 pick in this draft.
Well, I can't see adding a $14 million Marner would bring us a much better record next season either. May as well commit to getting younger and seeing what some of our prospects can do around the vets and evaluate that way.
Why get younger with this coach? He's just going to screw them up and waive them because he can't figure out how to use them in his system.
Totally agree, and that's why I mentioned the coach in my first post.
that's why this sucks so much right? We have 3 first round picks but a bad GM and bad coach
Preds don’t need a multi-million dollar goalie right now. What for? No playoffs look attainable for awhile and certainly no Cup. Might as well lose by 3 or 4 as 1 or 2.None of the things which "make sense" to us are going to happen though.
Trotz simply isn't going to trade Saros... or Forsberg, or O'Reilly or any of our veteran pieces which might have any value.
Maybe Brunette will get fired at some point next season if the team continues to struggle, but I wouldn't be especially confident that will lead to any massive change in approach. It might get us a coach who is more flexible/adaptable in his gameplan. But the handling of younger players is something the GM can control... if he wants to. And Trotz doesn't seem inclined to intercede in this area, so anybody he hires is going to continue to fall back on "gritty veteran depth", just because that's what all NHL coaches tend to do, lacking any directive to the contrary.
I think we're pretty royally screwed for the next several years... none of these trades or moves we all think seem obvious are going to happen, alas.
Worked for Edmonton, but Carolina, Vegas, Colorado, Jersey, LA, and Toronto are all teams that could have progressed further with better goaltending this postseason. Add Edmonton if they ultimately lose.
Yup. Somebody COULD profit with Saros. He won't have the same market today that he might have before he signed that abysmal contract, but some team SHOULD still be interested.
No, I'd rather not trade a 1st round pick for a 39 year old. We've already got Stamkos.
Good lord, no.
I have this recurring nightmare. Goes like this:
That the front office doesn't believe we can compete and therefore are willing to take a "step back". Which is pretty wild thing to do less than a year after going all-in with the current core and spending a gazillion dollars in FA to make the push.
I think it's just as wild to give a coach that team and not fire him once he completely fails. Now he's going to lead a team rebuilding all because of his shitty coaching?! Awful.
I wouldn't call that a "rumor". It was one writer doing what most fans on HFBoards do, glancing over the list of team rosters and saying "wow, Nashville really sucks, maybe their front office should be thinking about rebuilding?"
