Trades suck, drafting sucks, no playoff results, no cap space. Any other franchise would have fired this loser already.
I think he's mostly made good trades and the players we've drafted during his tenure seem to be progressing well so I can't agree with you there.
No playoff results, that's a sad fact. If you want to fire him for that, I can understand that.
No cap space - it's a given that this team will spend to the cap so this isn't really relevant.
The sad part is Gary we can’t be sure of anything. We have no idea who we will play next year and what type of game they bring.
It’s quite possible that circumstance matched us up the best against Tampa and we don’t face that next time. We face something that clogs us up and we are basing progress on losing in 7 games to Tampa.
Also the Leafs have done nothing to earn the benefit of the doubt. Edmonton might get stomped next year but the difference in franchises currently is seeing is believing.
For Edmonton the hope is winning past where they were. That’s what they know.
For us, it’s not losing where we always lose, that’s what we know.
There are many sad parts to this story and no, we can't be sure of anything.
It might be fair to call this season progress, but the sad part is that the only reasoning behind calling it progress is how pathetically bad the previous years have been. The Zekes of this world will no doubt point to the regular season and claim we're elite which makes want to throw rocks at them and that's why I have them on ignore but yeah, when a 1st round loss could be considered progress, you know you're in a sad spot.
No benefit of the doubt for this group - that goes without saying. It's going to be a long season but then, I'm used to that - last season was pretty damn long too and no, our "record breaking awesomely elite November" didn't fool me one bit. Time to win some rounds, that is all.
the so called "success" being defined as getting out of the first round. It is quite pathetic!
Success is a subjective term. For me personally, the last 3 seasons have fallen well short of "success", maybe even the last 5. I would say that we came closer to success this season than in the previous 4 seasons but then some people might get angry.
