Fitz has done a great job with contracts.
He has done a fine job not totally f***ing up most high draft picks (most.)
He has been horrific at building organizational depth at forward. He held onto Lindy too long. He waited way too long last year to address goaltending. He’s waiting way too long this year to address the complete dearth of NHL caliber forwards. He got a poor return for Toffoli last year.
His biggest deadline acquisition has spent 2.5 seasons of hockey in a Devils sweater acting like teenagers at bible camp: playing “get it so close but don’t put it in!”.
I have lost all confidence in his ability to build a stanley cup contending hockey team. The devils have been relatively LUCKY with health and just look at what these lines look like. They should embarrass anyone who actually believed this team had Cup aspirations.
The hamilton contract is awful. The palat contract is awful. The Dillon AND pesce contracts are redundant, and certainly some of that money should have been allocated to addressing the worst bottom-6 forward group in the national hockey league.
The Devils deserve better than Tom Fitzgerald.