We went through the whole last thread and OEL was never traded!
Completely disagree. Look at the 4 teams left. TB is the only team left that is built from drafting high with Hedman and Stamkos.Anyone read Craig's "inconvenient truth" tweet? I agree with him. We need to hit rock bottom before we can climb past being a bubble team. I've been saying this for quite a while. Sucks. So I continue to believe that we have to gut the core.
Morgan's job is to create content that people want to read, and it's people like you who read it a think it's the truth.Anyone read Craig's "inconvenient truth" tweet? I agree with him. We need to hit rock bottom before we can climb past being a bubble team. I've been saying this for quite a while. Sucks. So I continue to believe that we have to gut the core.
I don't move OEL or Kuemper unless I get great value for them. IF you trade those two for less than great value, you may as well gut the team and start over. I wonder if Chychrun is watching the Buffalo fiasco to see if Eichel get's traded. IF we don't see marked improvement next year Chick might do the same thing. If you think us fans are tired of this BS year after year how do you think the players feel? It's going to be interesting to see what Garland signs for and how long. I said it before and I will say it again, but if I was OEL I would welcome a trade.Hire a great coaching staff. Move OEL, Kuemper and Kessel. Sign some good UFAs to fill holes. Draft really well with the picks we do have. Then evaluate for another season. If the young Coyotes core and the young Roadrunners core take major steps forward, then focus on drafting well in the middle of rounds. If the young cores are equally “bleh” next season as they were last THEN go fill tank at the TDL, blow up the core and “Tire Fire for Tyler”.
Actually, looking back at previous posts, I think that Craig stole the idea of gutting the team and rebuilding from me!Morgan's job is to create content that people want to read, and it's people like you who read it a think it's the truth.
Whoa. Old man brian-fart. LOL. Tyler Wright? That's old school. I mean "shame for Shane"Hire a great coaching staff. Move OEL, Kuemper and Kessel. Sign some good UFAs to fill holes. Draft really well with the picks we do have. Then evaluate for another season. If the young Coyotes core and the young Roadrunners core take major steps forward, then focus on drafting well in the middle of rounds. If the young cores are equally “bleh” next season as they were last THEN go fill tank at the TDL, blow up the core and “Tire Fire for Tyler”.
I feel like Chychrun, Keller and Crouse are comfortably in the camp with Hayton, Soderstrom, Jenik, Maccelli, and Prosvetov. And this is the group that still fits with Shane Wright or Brad Lambert, if it comes to that.
OEL, Kessel, and Kuemper are the obvious guys to try to move for assets. They make no sense for our timeline, even the most optimistic of timelines. It would be dumb to keep any of them, if we can get a someone decent future asset for any of them. If we can get anything meaningful at all for any of them, they gotta go. Regardless of the rest of the plan.
The head-scratchers are Dvorak, Schmaltz and Garland. All 25 years old, and don't really fit a Wright/Lambert/Bedard kind of timeline. I think these four are the key to the master plan. It's not so obvious what to do with these guys as it is with the two groups described above (keep the young ones, ditch the old ones).
For me, I think I'd hang onto this group and evaluate between now and the TDL. The fate of these three 25 year-olds depends not only on their performance, but the performance of that first group. If the young Phoenix trio is disappointing next season and/or the performance of the Tucson five is disappointing next season, and it's clear that the reinforcements to this 25 year old core just aren't going to be good enough, it's probably time to trade all four of the 25 year old group. Maximize returns and officially "rebuild" and/or "tank".
A two year tank-a-thon!!!!!
Don't go into the season to tank. Not with how the lottery works now.
Try to compete and if we're shit by Christmas start selling off and try to improve your odds at that point.
I believe there’s a limit on how many spots you can move up now.Carolina, Philly and Dallas all just missed the playoffs the year they won a lotto to grab Schevnikov, Heiskanen and Patrick (well that one didn't help all that much). This franchise does better when the odds are stacked against them anyways, so maybe just once we can get lucky when we absolutely shouldn't be a lotto favorite.
I believe there’s a limit on how many spots you can move up now.
Sorry but that epic fail was on Maloney, not Tippet. Sure Tippet should've finished sinking the ship but it's on DM for leaving it afloat. I'm a big DM fan but he had a f***ing beachball sitting on the tee and still totally whiffed. The final year tanking was actually a sure thing, DM could've basically GUARANTEED one of McDavid or Eichel but he blew it, absolutely blew it.Here's what will happen if we sell everyone off for the 23 and 24 drafts: We'll lose both lotteries and draft outside the top three. One of the two players we draft will be a bust and all we'll have to show for it is the same shitty product we've had for most of the last 20 years.
We had our chance to suck and go after McDavid and Matthews. We had no owner or budget and a perfect opportunity to secure the worst record in the league for about a 5 year span. Tippett f***ed that up by winning the most meaningless games in NHL history by playing scrap heap vets instead of at least giving us the opportunity to enjoy watching some prospects. That was proof the hockey gods (and Dave f***ing Tippett) will never let us draft a generational player. I'd rather they work towards having a team that is a franchise center away from being a contender and throw everything at Matthews. That probably won't work either but maybe we'll have a little better hockey to watch along the way.
What more should he have done?Sorry but that epic fail was on Maloney, not Tippet. Sure Tippet should've finished sinking the ship but it's on DM for leaving it afloat. I'm a big DM fan but he had a f***ing beachball sitting on the tee and still totally whiffed. The final year tanking was actually a sure thing, DM could've basically GUARANTEED one of McDavid or Eichel but he blew it, absolutely blew it.