The reason he brought in veterans and tried to make as much of a wholesale change of the roster as he could was I assume to combat the exact thing that people are complaining about in multiple threads, the lack of professional preparedness and compete.
You also have to look at his moves in totality. Gregor and Gaudette have both been positive depth players. Jensen was a homerun.
As far as Perron goes, I wouldn't expect him to live up to his contract because we clearly overpaid to attract him, but I also don't think it's fair to judge his play so far when we know what was going on off the ice with his family.
I think that if Ullmark can get to where he is supposed to be, that given the lack of cap flexibility and complete lack of assets that Staios had to work with, he did a reasonable job re-tooling the roster. The problem is that it's not an overnight thing to fix. A few veterans playing 3rd line minutes aren't going to come in, and change the viewpoint of the superstars we have.
Obviously if this is the Ullmark we acquired, and he is signed for 5 years with a NMC, that's a Matt Murray-tier disaster that could set the team back years.
If anything, I think bringing a veteran like Perron in was more for the next wave who haven't been here long enough to lose their fire, like Pinto. Guys like Chabot and Tkachuk in this environment might be toxic now. They might legitimately need a change of scenery where they aren't the headliners on a team and are in a completely new environment with different hard norms established.
I don't think we're going for a full scale rebuild, but if we miss the playoffs again it would shock me if Tkachuk is still here by July 1st. I think we will slowly try to move out the core Dorion built and build around the next wave of Stutzle/Sanderson/Pinto/Yak.
