You're correct, sir. Maclellan has done a pretty poor job last couple of years in pretty much every regard. Bad drafting, bad FA signings, been overpaying left and right on the trade market. He GOTTA be on a hot seat if you're Ted. "You won a cup, okay great, thanks for the contribution but since then you've been bad at your job". This is pretty much what Maclellan's been saying to most of the players from that cup team whom he got rid of. Not exactly these words but the message always something along those lines. We don't want you for the money you worth on the market, we would like to pay to other players. So why wouldn't Tedbe all about business too? I'm all for it. You gotta part ways in time, not when it's too late.
I find it pretty ironic that everyone is now on the bash HCTR train (which is fine), but are now also questioning all the moves GMBM made and how those players performed under “Bashed HCTR”.
That's some dramatic shit. If you're contender the bar shouldn't be that low. Unless you're recognizing that you're more like pretender..
Agreed.
Perhaps. But one can argue it’s what grows them into contenders in the first place. (GMBM is a good example of that....who knows where this team would be if the consensus “hot GM names” at the time were hired. I wanted Shero at the time, many wanted Nill or Fenton or Benning......so yeah).
Somewhat true too. That said, I consider 2 years as a good enough sample size to look at the options you didn't look at previously.
To be fair they woudn't be able to get out of Orpik deal so easily now. The league wasn't happy with that buyout/sign again trick Maclellan pulled off. And let's be real Orpik looked pretty bad for the most part of that deal. He looked great in the cup run, wish he played like that all 5 years he'd been with the team but you look at how he performed throughout that timeframe and you can see why people were mad at that term and cap hit.
Had he gotten a player of Mcdavid caliber everyone should have had their mouths shut about him right now. In that case he would've done everything in his power and then some and all the blame should have been directed towards baldy Todd. But the best player Maclellan was able to get via trade in his entire tenure here is Oshie who is pretty good but damn..5 years ago? Give me break.
And Jack Johnson is so bad that it still makes his season look much worse than it was. He was out scored 3-8 at 5’s with Johnson and out scored the opponents 27-25 without him. His xG% with Johnson at 5v5 was 41.5% and 52.39% without. You can say Schultz still isn’t great, but Jack Johnson is literally that bad.
I think the players have been fine to be honest. I blame TR for a lot of the defensive problems though. The team was obviously a lot looser defensively (forwards included) under him. Guys like Gudas and Dillon were extremely strong defensively analytically before coming here and I think it’s pretty telling that those numbers immediately cratered once they arrived, same with Jensen. Beyond that, I just didn’t like the way the team played under him. Way too easy to play against and way too much cheating the game.
This is perhaps the most myopic post I've ever seen on HF... so bravo to you sir.
