No, all they’re doing is wanting all they can get, putting themselves ahead of the team.
Wanting a fair contract consistent with their quality and impact relative to the rest of the league is not putting themselves above the team.
And it’s really getting tiresome how you continually come up with all these reasons, which are actually just excuses, as to why they haven’t been successful in the playoffs.
What's really tiresome is people claiming incorrect reasons for our losses based on nothing but what they want to be true. If we didn't have that, I wouldn't have to come in and note the actual, factually-substantiated reasons. People seem to just get angry and lash out at the aspects of the team they dislike, instead of actually looking at what happened, why, and what can be done about it moving forward.
The only thing they have proven so far is that they choke in the playoffs, yet they are expecting to get raises yet again?
They haven't proven to be "chokers" at all. They've proven to be top tier players; among the best in the entire cap era. They will be paid according to that, not according to how many rounds our team has won, because that's how contracts work in the NHL. Individual compensation is not dependent on team playoff success. It is dependent on their individual quality and impact. You can dislike how it works if you want, but it's not going to change.
7 years of straight failure have shown it is more then just that.
Not winning a cup in your first 7 years in the league does not indicate anything more. That's fairly common.
As far as goaltending I do agree to a certain extent and that has been one of Dubas’s major failings along with signing a player we did not need Tavares.
The current elite goalies in the league were drafted back in like Nonis days, and for most of the rest of the goalies, you may as well be throwing darts blindfolded.
I guarantee nobody here had Adin Hill as the Cup-winning goalie before the season started. We had some successes and some failures with goaltending under Dubas, like you'll have with literally any GM, but the bigger issue has tended to be the elite goalies that have populated our division more than our goalies.
And Tavares did fill a need, but no point getting into that again.
Oh boy, we got golied excuse once again.
It's not an excuse. it's just what factually happened. We also saw it happen to Carolina even worse right after.
Our perimeter shot selection helped to inflate his stats.
We did not shoot from the perimeter. Our average shot distance was closer than Florida's, and in fact closer than the average Bobrovsky faced throughout the rest of the playoffs. We had more of pretty much every kind of dangerous shot/chance.
