Not really, he had nothing do with our top players, apart from JT. Dude inherited a DREAM gig here. You think the hatred is weird, what about the cult around the guy here, never seen anything more bizarre in my life. Decent GM, over rated though, took forever to realize hockey isn't an excel spreadsheet.
I don’t know about that. I’m not super active as a poster but an often lurker. Seems like if there is any cult, it’s anyone espousing to this day about there being any such cult. It’s just such a lazy cop out. If you don’t want to have the conversation you’ve probably had a hundred times already, that’s fair. But just say so. All this ‘cult’ talk though is just silly.
Was a good gig to walk into here, that’s for sure. I think 99% of anyone in his shoes would have done generally the same by sticking with this core. That’s my opinion. Not to beat a dead horse but if the cap kept increasing by ~4 million a year instead of being stagnant during covid years, the word ‘overpay’ would be non existent around here.
I think he had a decent plan but got dealt a bad hand and had trouble executing it. And the players didn’t get the results he or we had imagined. He is no longer here as a result. I won’t fault him for believing in our core of young forwards though.
Seems like Treliving so far has the same mandate, stick with the core. We shall see what he does with Marner. We could all guess and I think most of us would have the same answer( same as the other 2).
If it plays out like that and we have some more playoff success. What’s the conversation like then?
Is it somewhat vindication for Dubas by sticking with this core?
Is it credit for Treliving for finally finding the right mix outside the core?
For having the cap available to make significant moves outside the core?
And before you go labeling me as another one of your cultist. I know that the clock run out on Dubas. It was time( shanahan handled that time about as poorly as possible, but that’s a different conversation).
But overall. Not a bad effort, it couldn’t get the job done. Not guna act like it was the darkest period in leafs history.