Buying out Suter made me think they were finally serious about going for it.
Like they were actually going to try instead of living by the "anything can happen in the PO" mantra.
Then they turned around and signed Dumba and Lyubushkin and it has just sapped any possible good feeling these next 2 seasons could have possible have for me.
It's like wanting a boat and getting to choose between a mystery box and a boat, and taking the mystery box because it could be anything, even a boat.
It's been hard to even enjoy the games this year when they do the equivalent of throwing in the towel before the season started. Like I used to buy tickets to about 30-35 games a year and have gone to 0 for the first time in about 25yrs.
Then you hear they are "big game hunting" and you start to think ok maybe they are actually serious about going for a cup, and the Dumba and Lyubushkin deals were just the panic signings they appeared to be.
Though I don't know how you give 2 and 3yrs to them, there could not have been any sort of bidding war for Dumba.
To then hear he's looking at UFA only, and seeing a whole bunch of garbage names as upcoming UFAs, to then see this wet fart of an addition. It's literally the same shit every year, just keeps kicking the can down the road. He keeps hoping he stumbles into a winning lotto ticket instead of trying to stack the odds.
Winning a cup takes an a lot of luck as is, but he's taking a revolver with 5 rounds in it and hoping to get the 1 chamber that's empty to come up.
Eventually he's gonna run out of "next years" to kick the can down the road to. ( 1 maybe 2yrs from now)
If he'd have dumped Dumba to SJ, I would consider that a success.
A 1st for a decent, albeit unnecessary, forward, who historically struggles in the PO, and another bad defensemen is just a poor use of assets. It's a lot like trading for Lundkvist again, you get nothing useful out of it.
At least if they dumped Dumba in the trade you could understand the inflated cost, and sell Ceci as a bit of an upgrade.
If Ceci is the best thats actually available ( highly doubt) and they aren't dumping Dumba, you're literally better of standing still, you cannot give this coaching staff the freedom to dress Dumba, Ceci, Lyubushkin and in the event of injury Smith at the same time.
The simple fact that they keep giving Dumba games, much like they did with Suter, just shows how f***ing stupid they are. Until Heiskanens injury there was 0 reason for him to play games.
An example of a successful deadline would have been Tanev And hanifin last year. Or Tanev and another defender
Addresses the biggest weaknesses on the team and gives them the best chance to win a cup. Both went for peanuts too. Instead we had PO games where 1 defensemen, ironically not the one that made the most mistakes, played 2-5mins despite that another was a glorified traffic cone.
It doesn't matter, it's just to hard to give a shit about the team anymore.
