CMac Trades:
Mittlestadt for Bo - remains to be seen, but addresses a problem - tentative B+
Walker for RyJo+- remains to be seen, but addresses a problem - tentative A
Bardakhov for MacD- who knows, but we dropped salary - tentative B
Dumping Tatar - resolved a bad fit - B
Caleb Jones for Callahan - B
Colton for a 2nd - A
Fairbrother/Gulyayev/Gauthier for Newhook - who knows - tentative C+
RyJo for Galchenyuk - hard to say, RyJo was a bad fit, but Galchenyuk was a bullet we dodged - I'd say E given we had to spend a 1st to dump RyJo
Olofsson for future considerations - C
Rydahl for Blidh - C
Lars Eller for a 2nd - F
JJ for Englund - B
Kinkaid for Bowers - D
Nieto/Merkley for Kaut/MacDonald - C
Malgin for Hunt - C
CMac Signings:
MacK - A-
Toews - A+
Nuke - B+
Lehky - B+
Byram - B
Wood - C
Tatar - C
Parise - A
Drouin - A
Cogs - A
+ a bunch of smaller less impactful singings.
CMac has been better than people want to give him credit for.
You are harsh as f*** lol, I'd actually be a grade up or at least a plus on quite a few of those.
Respect though
I just put a ton of weight on the previous TDL, and off season. If it's simple percentage, he's an awesome GM.
For me though, if you can't pull the trigger in the end to be aggressive, and you waste two contending years you've got to go. We have maybe 6 or 7 total if being generous.
Sakic wasted a couple of years, got a Cup.. Sakic is a God, Cmac is not, yet. If he burned this year he had to go.
But he didn't.. There is more to do, but I'm f***ing happy.
Like literally I'm over here talking about the D on the right side, being something that needs to be fixed going into the season. The 2C I was hopeful with Ryjo.
He's set this team up to contend for longer grabbing a guy that has a lot of prime years left for the 2C spot.
We have all if the most important pieces outside of our starter being a question going forward.
The core is sick.. Mack, Makar, Mikko, Nuke, Mitts, Toews, and Landy (until proven otherwise) You should always be in the fight if you can fill in around that for the playoffs for the next 4 to 6 years.
That is your top pair, your top 2 centers, and your top two wings. Nothing else is really that f***in hard to get reasonably in season. God I needed that shit to stop. It's obvious Cmac will make deals, but the f***er has ice for blood.