Speculation: Caps Roster General Discussion (Coaching/FAs/Cap/Lines etc) - 2023 Off-season
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Brian23
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You continue to repeat it, but that still doesn't make it true.
I do not understand how anyone can still be defending or stanning Lavi's decisions here in the lats year and a half plus. Even the players have come out and tactifully said he was awful, and yet we still have to keep having the same appeals "he's the coach" bs from the fanbase.
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They had someone to step in a capably fill a $7.8 mil 1c role?
fantasies….
I’m not defending, its just when the Lavi shitposters get any pushback at all, they feel that way I guess.
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Since Laviolette is my favorite subject, I’m chiming in.
Simply having him finish last year was organizational malpractice. Laviolette cost some of our youngest guys years of development. He wanted a team of fourth liners, and BMac gave him everything he wanted.
His awfulness cannot be overstated.
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Why do you keep mentioning his cap hit? It has literally no bearing on his performance last year and whether they had potential options to fill them. He was a negative value last year regardless, so yes. They had options to potentially fill his spot and actually fill it with positive value.
But here's the kicker, the grand ole puck coach Lavi didn't even try. Instead the one guy who was probably the most checked out on this team was given the longest rope, and continually given the most opportunities. I think the only thing they held him back on was they put him on PP2 to run that instead of PP1, beyond that he got primo top line minutes, PK time, basically everything.
The irony.
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It's true they kept putting Kuzy out there as if he was Pavel Datsyuk. Unfortunately, he was actually Peter Klima (only without the occasional heater you'd get from Klima). We can all say Lavi should have been as harsh with Kuzy as he was with all the young guys who were on short leashes, but if you believe Kuzy then Lavi was that harsh. The problem is that Kuzy is a diva, and unless you're keyed into what makes him dance, he doesn't dance. That's mostly on him. Also, actually sitting him would have further diminished his already near-negative trade value.
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The broke olds strategy going as expected.
Alexeyev 1 - Kuznetsov 0
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Wild that a guy with a history of back injuries sustained an injury. I'd be surprised if it wasn't another back injury.
That acquisition never made any sense.
That acquisition never made any sense.
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Benching Kuzy longterm was never an option. They needed him to perform and they needed him to play better to get a trade partner or two in the offseason….neither happened.
Caps had absolutely nobody else capable of stepping into that role and succeeding.
If your bar for success Is just a warm body, sure ok, we had those…
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I have plenty…..our young guys were simply not that good dude….time to accept that. CMM can’t crack the roster, and may not again this season, and Protas wasn’t ready for that role (and probably isn’t talented enough)…
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One wonders how long it will take hf to turn on Carbery if the youngns don't immediately populate the line-up. Because of course it could not be that they have to earn it.
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Meh, Lavi weakness wasn’t not playing our mediocre prospects, it’s moves like making Backstrom the 1C and scratching Strome.
Lavi struggled with his NHL vets, not just the prospects.
Lavi struggled with his NHL vets, not just the prospects.
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He scratched Strome, what, one game
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Still a very weird move, but they had to see where 19 was. Took all of one game to figure it out lol…
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Right. I mean, this Backstrom situation isn't on Lavi. It hasn't gone away. It's still here and Lavi is gone. Now Carbery is a few injuries and return stints away from having to make similar decisions.
correct. Another example of Lavi misusing his players.
This looks good for McMichael and Malenstyn.
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Good for AA that trade always looked bad from the start
Years of development might be an overstatement it was more like months. And I think everyone can agree the Hershey cup run was good for development
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no way people are still defending laviolette, that dinosaur did his best to ruin our roster
i hope hes alright but its better for our team if he doesnt get on the ice
i hope hes alright but its better for our team if he doesnt get on the ice
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