Salary Cap: Chris MacFarland - Record as Avalanche GM (Updates In First Post)

[RoyIsALegend]

Yep, I figured that was gonna happen.

We’ll pick it up in a few months like you and I usually do.

Have a good day, friend.

 

[AnimalMother73]

What about David Carle the next coach?

 

[Pokecheque]

What about David Carle the next coach?

They won't pay him what he'll undoubtedly get once he finally jumps ship to the NHL.

 

[VikingAv]

They won't pay him what he'll undoubtedly get once he finally jumps ship to the NHL.

Not unless he waits until Bednar's deal is up, at least. They're paying him a boatload, but no way will they have Bednar on the books AND pay another HC top dollars.

 

[expatriatedtexan]

They won't pay him what he'll undoubtedly get once he finally jumps ship to the NHL.

Whatever happened to George Gwozdecky? I remember him kicking absolute ass with the Pioneers and then he just kinda dropped off the map for me personally.

I just remember a lot of folks around here absolutely adored him as Dever's coach.

Not unless he waits until Bednar's deal is up, at least. They're paying him a boatload, but no way will they have Bednar on the books AND pay another HC top dollars.

The Avs are absolutely cheap on boatloads of things. But...they've never shied away from approaching the salary cap max. Hell, even when we sucked we had payrolls much, much larger than they should have been because we were paying fossils like their were still in their prime.

The Avs coughed up damn near 5M per year to keep Bednar.

If...and this is the rub...IF CMac thinks it's the best move, it will be made. I just don't think CMac thinks it's the best move right now as he's still fiddling with the lineup significantly.

Personally, I'm caught in the no-mans land between it being hard to judge someone's work when they haven't been given the proper tools to do the job and wondering if Bednar has been given the tools and just failed to use them properly.

 

[Pokecheque]

Whatever happened to George Gwozdecky? I remember him kicking absolute ass with the Pioneers and then he just kinda dropped off the map for me personally.

I just remember a lot of folks around here absolutely adored him as Dever's coach.

The Avs are absolutely cheap on boatloads of things. But...they've never shied away from approaching the salary cap max. Hell, even when we sucked we had payrolls much, much larger than they should have been because we were paying fossils like their were still in their prime.

The Avs coughed up damn near 5M per year to keep Bednar.

If...and this is the rub...IF CMac thinks it's the best move, it will be made. I just don't think CMac thinks it's the best move right now as he's still fiddling with the lineup significantly.

Personally, I'm caught in the no-mans land between it being hard to judge someone's work when they haven't been given the proper tools to do the job and wondering if Bednar has been given the tools and just failed to use them properly.

Gwoz, last I checked, was still the head coach at Valor Christian, which is absolutely ridiculous if they can pay him a salary comparable to an NCAA D1 head coach.

FTR they did not start paying Bednar the big bucks until after he won the Cup and they knew he'd walk into giant piles of cash elsewhere if they didn't finally fork over the cash. I just don't see them paying a new guy that much off the bat, no matter how decorated he is heading into the job.

I'm also not buying any notion about "not being given proper tools". Yes, the cap situation and shitty drafting are not ideal, but CMac was handed quite possibly the most talented core in hockey. It should NOT be that hard to build a contender around that when they had literally just won a Stanley Cup prior to him taking the reins. The Georgiev, Johansen, and Mittelstadt failures are most definitely on his shoulders.

The thing that is out of his control is the fact that the team's two best two-way players have played a grand total of 128 combined games since the team won the Cup (literally all of them played by one of those two players).

 

[CobraAcesS]

Gwoz, last I checked, was still the head coach at Valor Christian, which is absolutely ridiculous if they can pay him a salary comparable to an NCAA D1 head coach.

FTR they did not start paying Bednar the big bucks until after he won the Cup and they knew he'd walk into giant piles of cash elsewhere if they didn't finally fork over the cash. I just don't see them paying a new guy that much off the bat, no matter how decorated he is heading into the job.

I'm also not buying any notion about "not being given proper tools". Yes, the cap situation and shitty drafting are not ideal, but CMac was handed quite possibly the most talented core in hockey. It should NOT be that hard to build a contender around that when they had literally just won a Stanley Cup prior to him taking the reins. The Georgiev, Johansen, and Mittelstadt failures are most definitely on his shoulders.

The thing that is out of his control is the fact that the team's two best two-way players have played a grand total of 128 combined games since the team won the Cup (literally all of them played by one of those two players).

Lehhky has played 64, and 45 games the last two seasons, and missed 12 this year too. Having those three and LOC were the wheels to Bednar's system working both defensively and offensively so well at the same time.

The EJ, Manson, Kadri situation is the bach he's never recovered from, and still hasn't.