Speculation: IS THERE A f***ING PLAN BARRY OR ARE YOU JUST AN IDIOT??

[PredsV82]

Jesus Christ. I'm done with this.
Great coach.
Absolute meathead GM.
Get stuffed, Barry.

Please use this thread to vent your Trotz hate/frustration rather than clog up an actual hockey talk thread

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[BigFatCat999]

I’ve already done all the clogging of the threads like I am cholesterol

 

[Soundgarden]

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. We're losing and trying to cement a top 3 pick/get ahead of Chicago for a top 2 pick,
this trade doesn't seem like the straw that breaks the camel's back. We got rid of Schenn and the cost to do that was Novak and we get a 4th for our troubles. We got a little older and a little worse at forward but we're a bottom feeder and Novak isn't a star or even a potential star.

We're going scorched earth and doing a giant rebuild and getting rid of a lot of guys for picks. It's gonna suck for ticket holders but that's the plan.

 

[PredsV82]

We are dead last in goals per game and we trade one of the few players who actually scores every now and again. The only way this ends up making any sense is if it's a strangers on a train thing where the teams that want actulky want Bunting and Novak are teams Pit and us didn't want to trade with directly and they both get flipped somewhere else for a pick. The 4th for Schenn seems about right value wise.

 

[Kat Predator]

Evangelista is next.

Getting assigned to that 3rd line is like being on death row.

And the right side of our defense is just as bad. Totally vaporized at this point.

 

[Top 6 Spaling]

There is a huge difference between "fun, young, bad team low in the standings" and "10 of our 12 forwards under contract for next year will be 30 or older on opening night. And we're low in the standings"

It's been clear since Trotz didn't follow through with the rebuild he has no plan or idea what he's doing.

 

[Soundgarden]

There is a huge difference between "fun, young, bad team low in the standings" and "10 of our 12 forwards under contract for next year will be 30 or older on opening night. And we're low in the standings"

It's been clear since Trotz didn't follow through with the rebuild he has no plan or idea what he's doing.

Next season is an eternity from now at this point, this team is gonna like really different then, at the draft and this Friday.

 

[Kiseo]

So it took losing Novak on a down year to get rid of Schenn’s bad contract. Sounds like fixing one self induced problem and creating another.
as a season ticket holder, I do not approve of this message.

 

[Turin]

If you add up all the Pens/Preds trades this year it's really weird.

Tomasino, Novak, Schenn, Glass, 3rd, 6th for Bunting, 4th, 4th and Frasca.

A massive, bizarre trade. But yea, you would think that if you set out to build a market for Tomasino, Novak and Schenn you would be able to get more. Idk.

 

[ShagDaddy]

Trotz has until August to show some signs of competency as a GM.

 

[ILikeItILoveIt]

Let's not forget Matt "Retiring in Nashville" Duchene: 25 goals, 37 assists, 62 points in 61 games. That's excellent production for what we're paying him. It's too bad we're paying him to play on another team. I guess he didn't fit our team's "hard to play against" identity.

There's no way this isn't nothing but a huge failure, among many others. Our new identity is that we're a "Hard to Watch" team.

Wonder what Poile thinks?

 

[Armourboy]

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. We're losing and trying to cement a top 3 pick/get ahead of Chicago for a top 2 pick,
this trade doesn't seem like the straw that breaks the camel's back. We got rid of Schenn and the cost to do that was Novak and we get a 4th for our troubles. We got a little older and a little worse at forward but we're a bottom feeder and Novak isn't a star or even a potential star.

We're going scorched earth and doing a giant rebuild and getting rid of a lot of guys for picks. It's gonna suck for ticket holders but that's the plan.

There is a lot of hope in that statement but I think Barry's plan is to dump contracts and buy a bunch more guys with whatever cap he has and take another run at it thinking it will work this time. If you are going scorched earth, you maybe dump those guys but not for what he got in return.

The scary part is I think this means Brunette is back for another season which is freaking mind blowing.

Might as well buckle your seatbelts and put your helmets on because we are about to be a part of one of the worst trainwrecks in history.

 

[Kat Predator]

There is a lot of hope in that statement but I think Barry's plan is to dump contracts and buy a bunch more guys with whatever cap he has and take another run at it thinking it will work this time. If you are going scorched earth, you maybe dump those guys but not for what he got in return.

The scary part is I think this means Brunette is back for another season which is freaking mind blowing.

Might as well buckle your seatbelts and put your helmets on because we are about to be a part of one of the worst trainwrecks in history.

100%. This is far from scorched earth. Scorched earth is what San Jose did. They got rid of fan favorites, great players, average players, role players, the woman who answered the phone, several of the girls with the shovels that cleared snow, ...

Trotz is still clinging to the big contract guys he signed in free agency. It's almost as if he thinks if he moves any of them it will show that he is completely incompetent. Far better to dump role players and young prospects before giving them a chance.

 

[Kat Predator]

Can you turn this thread into a poll?

 

[herzausstein]

Bunting is nyquist replacement next season.

Even after this crappy season of questionable coaching decisions, Trotz is making moves in a way that seem to backup Bruno.

Just gotta solve the center, RHD, and goaltending issues and we will be the champ