It’s not about the trades themselves, it’s how they appear optically. They have no plan or vision. No matter what we thought of picks like Traff and Graham (who’s out for the season) what does it say about TF trading them less than a year of drafting them after making a big deal about “getting bigger” and all the other crap, to then dispose of them in nothing trades?
He got pants by Verbeek, plain and simple. In no trade market, and you can argue about green banana picks and prospects all you want, does a 33yo Dman with no term merit a 2nd and a prospect, none. f*** retention, especially when he didn’t do dick with it.
It’s about the whole cycle of TF. The TDL was just a microcosm of his inane vision. How do you f*** up a team that set a franchise record for points and was a scoring machine and turn it into this?
Speed, gone, overall finish, gone, middle 9 and 4th line depth, gone. Better coach with better structure now, sure but even SK to me is a question mark with all the shutouts and lack of finish. He’s coaching what he has and he doesn’t have control over the roster building, so pass for him for now.
But the team apparently ate too much Christmas ham and never recovered. Injuries aside, what happened to team that set a record for shots against in multiple games? When the team was drowning at the end of January/early February, what was his plan? Accrue cap space? Bullshit. But wait, didn’t he say he hated deadline deals? Why couldn’t you try and add one 3rd line player then and see? Get Cody Glass back then? (Not looking at cap
implications back then, and frankly don’t care. Don’t f***ing @ me with crappy pedantic crap).
Beyond Lenni and Grits, who no way are guarantees to be good NHLers, there’s zero organizational forward depth. That’s five years of drafting! Three D top picks:
Holtz: I don’t know, drafted around where expected but scouting his skating and intangibles should have been a priority for team vision fit. To be clear, I wanted Rossi especially for the Asti Spumante memes.
Stillman: Enough with the COVID draft excuses, we could’ve all drafted better at that spot. That guy has a hard on for NHL lineage and went with that. Clear as day now. He was a reach anyway you cut it and we all knew it then when the pick was announced. We all shouting “Stankoven” “Zelleweger”. Heck I wanted Ham and Salami!
Luke: right call, that wasn’t a hard one to make but he did have a hard on when he did it.
Nemec: he got caught with his pants down when MTL took JS, plain and simple. Then overcorrected and drafted 27 RDs. Why hasn’t he traded any of those as throw aways? We were all shocked, I was unsure of Wright thanks to our local draft geeks, but no idea who I wanted at that point.
Silayev: good pick/potential “unicorn” DDM but realistically he’s not contributing as a fully developed player for another 4-5 years. A forward pick there could be contributing in 2-3. But knowing him he would’ve f*** that up too. I wanted Nygard, would’ve settled for Helenius or a trade down.
Looking at the overall picture, he has no plan, the trading of players you just drafted shows that. “Get bigger and get to the net for dirty goals” is not a plan. You can’t plug that in and hope for the best. The organization has no skill at all and the little that it has from his poor drafting, he gets rid of it. So what’s the message to the fan base? What’s the message to the team and where it’s going, building for a cup?
Are only hope is that one or two of Bratt, Nico, Timo, maybe Luke, and maybe Markstrom puts the team on their backs and go on a Original Kovy or Hall like run and muster something for us to cheer about.
Is TF a low IQ dunce? No. But is he a championship caliber GM/Prez, whatever his dumb title is? Not with loser talk like, “we tried”. f*** him. Lindy wasn’t it and now this guy isn’t it.
And stop f***ing trading with Pittsburgh or ex-Pens. You f***ing myopic jerk off!
No more effort from me to watch nor attend games.
Edit: and f*** everything having to do with McDoofus too. f***ing moronic 3 year deal. Idiot. You f***ing idiot.
