Yesss, because its just so easy to win a stanley cup. Holy f*** where do they get these guys from. This isnt NHL 25 You cant turn on forced trades and turn off salary cap.
You actually think that management and the overseers have done a good job? Chiarelli was an absolute disaster
*G. Reinhart
*Eberle into Strome/Spooner/nothing.
*How about evaluate Koskinen for longer before that stupid contract
*or give Sekera 6 yrs at big money when he was barely a top4
*How about don't turn 1st overall Taylor Hall into a boat anchor contract (Lucic) and then nothing when Larsson walked. The 4 combined handcuffed the teams cap to say nothing of how bad it was on ice
*Puljujarvi over Tkachuk...i mean teams make mistakes at the draft table but Tkachuk should have been the archetype addition to McDavid Draisaitl not a player who's big move was to skate around players....called that one from day1
*Had no communications with their non top50 pick prospects (i know someone who was drafted by them in this era and they had and others had zero development guidance)
*Kept picks then pissed them away when they were ready to help. Could have used them to offload bad contracts. Could have acquired good players. All years wasted at optimizing McDavid and Draisaitl and the fact those 2 together with competent management should have been a decade of dominance
Then even after they got rid of that moron they actually do a good job for a couple years then drop the ball this off season. Holloway Broberg McLoed Foegele for the old overpaid injury prone dreck they kept.
If you win it will be because Bowman saves face and the dynamic duo pull it off with idiots running the show