The Devils could not qualify Glass but could negotiate lower than his QO. His QO is 2.5 for two years, but could they negotiate for $2 million a year? Am I correct? Didn't the Devils do that with McLeod and Bastian?
I think it's fair to worry whether Fitz will do the proper moves to improve the forward depth. It's silly to think he's not going to do anything at all, though. The Haula trade is priming the pump for something else, whatever that may be.
man, go read your post again, maybe turn it down a notch and people would be more willing to respond positive to your critics. calling a FO mostly incompetent and for others to have no logic sounds indeed arrogant and speaks to alack of self-awareness. i am usually on the same page with you, but nobody is always right and its easy to critize in the aftermath, we should not expect it from a GM and for sure not from ourself. i would never think, that i know better then these professionals and mistakes will be made.Maybe this org just rarely deserves credit and is mostly incompetent?Recent memory: I was happy with the Bahl and Kovacevic acquisitions. Liked the Bratt, Hughes, and Nico contracts. Toffoli made sense, but still no idea how they didn't get more at deadline that year. Meier also made sense, but was an overpay (happens). Dillion was okay, but the NMC with term extending this year didn't make much sense based on rest of contracts. Pesce was a player they needed and who I've always liked, but the contract is a ticking time bomb with the miles he has....and there is some truth to him being a Slavin merchant. Was fine with Keefe hire. Etc etc.
So I say positive stuff and abstain if I don't love a move but get the reasoning....this team just makes a disproportionate amount of stupid decisions and many folks on here blindly defend it obnoxiously and without logic. Then when definitively proven wrong, they learn nothing, and keep on doing the same thing with the next topic. I mean there are very frequent posters that have an incredible arrogance to them despite being wrong about 95% of things on this board for years or even a decade+. I'm envious of the lack of self-awareness tbh (generally speaking).
Lol, well said. I think people should sometimes read their posts out loud and see if they would still be willing to say the same thing in the same way speaking compared to typing. The internet just has a way of encouraging more extreme language.
He's from Manitoba, he wasn't going anywhere else. Feels kinda weird to say that about a franchise where players have tried to avoid, isn't it?
My thing with Glass is that I don't know what he get's you over "random other guy at league minimum/callup from the minors". Is be better than Dowling? Sure. Is he $2M better than Dowling? I don't think so.
His on ice numbers in his last 12 games of the season are great. Telling that fourth line center with his skating and positioning doesn't worth 2.5 mil especially with today cap is just pure ignoring of reality.
