People keep saying this but it's difficult to point out the glaring holes and poor performance without explaining why. Game 1 is over, it's long over. Are we going to keep analyzing each of the four goals and 50000 shots against but ignore the why of it?
While I agree in general that offseason talk isn’t for GDT’s, second guessing draft picks or deadline moves does tend to happen in every GDT
lmao. you keep saying this but Shero trading all our 2nd and 3rd round picks is a reason why we have no depth now. there’s absolutely no deeper logic to your thinking than “most 2nd rounders aren’t stars and we get new ones every year.”
Tbh second and third rounders aren’t nearly as big a deal as failing to get shit out of a lot of your firsts a la Holtz and the fourth liner who had one good half season and is now on bail in exile. Even a guy like Mercer has regressed big time
He literally said “this is what we expected” so you expected to not show up, get completely outplayed/outshot and get steamrolled? I don’t get it.
awhile back i actually went back through sheros trade history and if i remember correctly he brought back in almost exactly the same amount of draft picks as he dealt out or something really close to that. i also believe at that time i looked and none of the players amounted to much of anything. maybe thats changed maybe im remembering it wrong but this team doesn't need draft picks anymore. for better or worse it has its core in place it has the defense in place and goaltending for another year. they need legit nhl talent now not 5 years from now not maybe and unknowns. use whatever draft capital you have to that surrounds this group with talent now! nemec holtz top end draft capital drafted and probably both gone next year use the draft capital and get help
Getting outshot ≠ Getting outplayed
Cool, but you are talking as if the picks were given up to help the team win in the future. When in reality, they were lit on fire in a blatantly lost season. Just like overpaying for Allen last year 4 months too late and when no Cup contender even wanted him for playoff goalie depth. How he's played since is irrelevant, he had no market. Constantly doing this is, again, death by a thousand Tommy Fitz induced papercuts. You also keep acting as if you have to use your draft picks in the draft. What if they instead used that 2nd or less to get rid of Palat? That'd make much more sense if trying to build a winner...eventually.
Hard to put this in Shero when he hasn’t been the GM since 2019. Fitz made moves to recoup draft picks when he started and came up bust. Two of the Hurricanes key players in the series were drafted after Holtz and Stillman for example. It on those more recent picks and they are in a situation where you can survive injuries.
This is like a war photograph where the chopper just landed back at base after picking up the guys at the front.
i'll be honest i typed out a reply to what i think you are talking about then i was like i dont know what your talking about so i deleted it.
