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Jimmy Firecracker said:
What a wasted opportunity by Seattle. Yes Vegas set an unrealistic high bar but the Kraken could be so much better than this. Goaltending has been their downfall but why they hired Hakstol as their first head coach is beyond me. Plenty of other candidates that would’ve been great.
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To think Seattle could have drafted Price and Tarasenko plus make a few more side deals to get picks.
 
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Jimmy Firecracker said:
What a wasted opportunity by Seattle. Yes Vegas set an unrealistic high bar but the Kraken could be so much better than this. Goaltending has been their downfall but why they hired Hakstol as their first head coach is beyond me. Plenty of other candidates that would’ve been great.
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Can't disagree. I had them pegged as a contender for a playoff spot due to their goaltending and what I thought would be an iffy division. I did believe Hakstol was better suited for an assistant role though.
 
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Jimmy Firecracker said:
What a wasted opportunity by Seattle. Yes Vegas set an unrealistic high bar but the Kraken could be so much better than this. Goaltending has been their downfall but why they hired Hakstol as their first head coach is beyond me. Plenty of other candidates that would’ve been great.
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I said it at the time of announcement — you could have given me a hundred guesses as to who the first head coach in the team’s history would be, and Hakstol still wouldn’t have been one of them.
 
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Jimmy Firecracker said:
What a wasted opportunity by Seattle. Yes Vegas set an unrealistic high bar but the Kraken could be so much better than this. Goaltending has been their downfall but why they hired Hakstol as their first head coach is beyond me. Plenty of other candidates that would’ve been great.
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The best off-season change the Leafs had was Seattle hiring Hakstol.
 
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Thing with Seattle is that even if they wanted to go more a traditional rebuild route, icing a lacklustre roster with hopes of building through the draft, they did a terrible job accumulating assets to stockpile their prospect pool.

So they didn't plan to build with futures .. and if their goal was to contend now they made some odd draft choices for that. Like they half assed it.
 
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While he does sign some good contracts, it's amazing how Lou Lam accumulates these bad contracts at record pace. Anders Lee, Pageau, Palmieri etc.
 
Jimmy Firecracker said:
What a wasted opportunity by Seattle. Yes Vegas set an unrealistic high bar but the Kraken could be so much better than this. Goaltending has been their downfall but why they hired Hakstol as their first head coach is beyond me. Plenty of other candidates that would’ve been great.
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Seattle seems to have chosen the 90s expansion team route, aka be terrible and try to build through the draft over a 5-10 year time frame. Not sure that makes any sense in a time when the league gives them favorable expansion conditions and they need to build a entertainment brand in a hurry. Vegas understood this. Seattle doesn't seem to really get it.
 
hamzarocks said:
Zibinajad placed on COVID protocol.

Hopefully leafs are not impacted by that as wr played him a few nights ago
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Yeah, how the heck does that work when the Rangers just played the Leafs the other night? This is a mess.
 
BertCorbeau said:
Thing with Seattle is that even if they wanted to go more a traditional rebuild route, icing a lacklustre roster with hopes of building through the draft, they did a terrible job accumulating assets to stockpile their prospect pool.

So they didn't plan to build with futures .. and if their goal was to contend now they made some odd draft choices for that. Like they half assed it.
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They had 2020s expansion rules, a billion dollars to work with and somehow went the Minnesota Wild route. Granted Ron Francis built the foundations of the Carolina Hurricanes, but when you're launching an expansion team and there's already a road map for instant success, why are you doing it the hard and unentertaining way?
 
BertCorbeau said:
Thing with Seattle is that even if they wanted to go more a traditional rebuild route, icing a lacklustre roster with hopes of building through the draft, they did a terrible job accumulating assets to stockpile their prospect pool.

So they didn't plan to build with futures .. and if their goal was to contend now they made some odd draft choices for that. Like they half assed it.
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They half assed half assing it.
 
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Blackwood with some huge saves against the Lightning to preserve the win. Nice come from behind victory, Blackwood playing like a Vezna winner. Winning goalie has to play extremely well 90% of the time. Who knew?
 
SprDaVE said:
Lamoriello rarely ever deals with his own mistakes. He just moves on eventually.
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It's a common pattern for his last three teams. He's micro focused on the next game, and leaves the cleanup for the successor.

Will be interesting to see.how he and the Isles front office respond to a season like this when they're clearly in "win now" mode.
 
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It's a common pattern for his last three teams. He's micro focused on the next game, and leaves the cleanup for the successor.

Will be interesting to see.how he and the Isles front office respond to a season like this when they're clearly in "win now" mode.
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I feel that's the goal of any GM in the NHL though? I mean no GM stays on 1 team for more then 5 years, their job is to win NOW and pop out as many cups as possible, they aren't worried about the next guys job. You would be correct that Lou lives in the moment, and you know what? There's not a damn thing wrong with it! Every team he's been on, has had some degree of success, hell, he even put a laughing stock that was the Leafs back on the map in 2015... there is a reason as to why Lou is a HOF'er.
 
James Blackley said:
I feel that's the goal of any GM in the NHL though?
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That's not the goal at all. A good GM has a proper balance between setting the team up for the short and long term.
I mean no GM stays on 1 team for more then 5 years
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About half the league has had their GM for 5+ years. Just because Lou destroys and runs, that doesn't mean it's how the rest of the league works.
he even put a laughing stock that was the Leafs back on the map in 2015...
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Leafs finished last place in 2015, and he had little to do with our rise in subsequent years.
 
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