I want him fired if he continues to waste my Stanley Cup winning teams core players prime years without getting them the help needed to compete for the cup which should be the thing that matters most here, but for some reason from mgmt. a seemingly lack of urgency, that does not seem the case. This is now year 3 that under Sweeney we are teetering on a playoff spot. Bergeron, Krejci, Marchand, Chara, Rask, are players you try to win with. Not waste. Either try to win now or sell them off also.
But playing it half way while leaving the fan base clueless as to what your plan is while your hand is in their pocket while you send out playoff ticket orders in late March, not knowing if you are even making it, is a classless way for a team to treat their fans. Especially loyal fans like ours. Everyone knows we are under manned, I am sure our veterans do also, lets see if Sweeney knows it.
Who should he have sold and for what return? Playoff teams dont trade nhl ready talent.
Dougie may been able to be shopped for a more nhl ready player but the return as a whole was a great grab.
If we are trying not to "waste the core" who gets traded for any real returns?
Prospects are the answer, which we NOW have an abundance of. Before a trade for a guy like landeskog, duchene etc wouldve gutted our pool, now we have currency(picks, many prospects, players like spooner etc) who can be packaged to get reinforcements for the core to make a run.
While signing a supporting cast(backes, moore) and spooner, pasta, czarnik and vatrano filling that youth/speed/secondary scoring we have been missing while adding other pieces needed for a run (penalty kill grit guys) who can skate and score more than some other past 4th line staples.
Fancy stats say we are one of if not the best possession and least lucky scoring team in the league.
Tuukka is carrying the team and he sent the vet (dobby) down to let youth back him up, and mcintyre looks better and if he is playing poor at least him is learning against nhlers and growing rather than loosing games and being washed up like dobby looked to be.
The top 6 is getting crowded with vatrano scoring again and spooner-czarnik add valuable depth scoring. We are one (year) top4 d (mcavoy) away from having an awesome balance with shut down(chara, carlo) and speed(mcavoy and krug). Even if mcavoy struggles colin miller is looking like a growing 4-5 who is getting better quick.
Questioning action is ok. we clearly need a few moves, but until now i dont think we had the currency to make the moves. Sweeney has done 3/4 of the work now he needs to cash in some prospects and make sure the right ones can stay and grow into impact players.
thdtc is funny 
