arttk
Registered User
CBJ is trying to compete, they are just crazy incompetent. Jurmo deserves to be fired and will probably be fired.There are a lot of teams in the NHL where I look at them and wonder what the f***ing point of them existing even is.
Blue Jackets, Blues, Predators, Capitals, Jets, Flames, etc. All middling boring teams with management/ownership too cowardly to go hard in any direction. Just kind of wandering around in the middle making some moves but then taking steps back to go nowhere. Utterly useless.
I’d almost lump the Wild and Islanders in there but at least one of them made a big splash for Horvat and the other made the two biggest buyouts in history. Then neither have followed up with anything to further push them over the edge and are just upper-tier middling teams.
WAS has one focus and that’s getting Ovy to break Gretzky’s record. After that they are going to rebuild.
Wild is in a weird spot, they have some really good pieces and it does make sense for them to continue to build and wait for the cap penalty to pass.
The rest, from a sporting perspective they should rebuild but this just illustrates that rebuild is not just a pure sporting decision but a financial decision. And it would be crazy to see like 6-8 teams trying to rebuild at the same time.