Speculation: IS THERE A f***ING PLAN BARRY OR ARE YOU JUST AN IDIOT??
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Kat Predator
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Wow. He's in so far over his head.
Talks about players being people and caring about them and their families. Then talks about "getting rid of pieces", "moving pieces", "finding pieces" ... Um, ok. Which is it?
Talks about going into trades by considering how much value a player has to him and his team. If the trade partner doesn't see it the exact same way ... just walk away. No wonder our trades are so one-sided. Other teams don't care what the role of a certain player is on your team, you idiot.
Everything is bad luck, bad calls, unfortunate. Hoping for things to turn around. It's a hard job.
Thought it was interesting he said the disastrous start was because they were moving the puck too predictably ... I mean that sounds like some revisionist history. I watched those early games and we literally couldn't pass a puck tape-to-tape to save our lives. Passes to open ice and 10 feet ahead or behind someone were the norm. It wasn't predictability that was the issue, it was no one knew what they were doing and the execution was pee-wee league level.
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Roman Yoshi
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I'll put it like this my normal source put it at 100% that Bruno is back.
Kat Predator
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We're going to be the new Buffalo until ownership steps in and fires these guys. And by the time that happens, it will take a competent GM a good number of years to rebuild the franchise and team.
Roman Yoshi
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Honestly Trotz comments at the end of his availability that anytime they put guys on waivers and they get picked up shows how good Nashville is at identifying and developing talent is the most bat shit insane thing I think I've ever heard.
Barry, you WAIVED those players because you didn't think they helped your team. Your own analysis was WRONG. You aren't good at anything you claimed. If anything it means you are a donkey.
Barry, you WAIVED those players because you didn't think they helped your team. Your own analysis was WRONG. You aren't good at anything you claimed. If anything it means you are a donkey.
Armourboy
Hey! We suck!
If he likes you then you are family and he cares what happens to you, if he doesn't then you are just a piece.
If I was Haslam after hearing his comments today I wouldn't even call him in I'd just send him a text that he was fired cause I couldn't let him screw anything else up.
Gnashville
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I get a feeling we are about to enter a Buffalo type rebuild.
Armourboy
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Yeah I see a prolonged suckage coming. We got lucky under Poile, now we find out what it's like to be some of these teams that just endlessly suck and would be happy just making the playoffs one year.
Scoresberg
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I think it's going to be something even worse. Like we keep patching things up over the summer with veteran UFAs without ever giving the chance for our youth. I'm already visioning a 7x7 deal for Brock Nelson come July 1st.
We're going be stuck in the 8-10 range for the foreseeable future without a glimpse of hope.
Kat Predator
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I still can't believe he thinks going on a little heater down the stretch here would be "something to build on down the road" and is trying to sell these results as "everything going perfectly to the plan."
You want more crazy? How about Bruno is doing a great job of installing a system to play with speed? We're one of the oldest, slowest team in the NHL and the sales pitch is we're getting faster.
You want more crazy? How about Bruno is doing a great job of installing a system to play with speed? We're one of the oldest, slowest team in the NHL and the sales pitch is we're getting faster.
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Kat Predator
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These paragraphs are incongruous. Worse than Buffalo would mean we never finish better than 29th overall for the next 20 years. (I don't see the franchise surviving that, honestly.)
Stuck in the 8-10 range would be an improvement by Trotz, who believes his plan is actually coherent and working well. It would actually be on par with the Sabres, who draft between 1st overall and 14th overall every season.
At least we'll be focused on the right things. Culture and whether the GM likes you enough to have you over for a pool and pizza party.
IF there was a Toronto offer for ROR…
IF it was an offer that would improve the Preds…
IF it was rejected because ROR didn’t want to go there…
Then Trotz violated the trust placed by ownership in him and is subject to dismissal.
It would clearly prove much of what has been said; he is a member of the good ole boys club, likes or dislikes players based on personal relationships, not abilities and doesn’t have the mind of a GM.
Not only that but seems to be taunting critics by hinting that’s what he did.
Now about ROR; he’s a very good, not great, player, respected, good “in the room”, seemingly desirable by other teams on their Cup run. He is not at fault here for desiring to remain in Nashville and avoid the Toronto hockey environment. He gives the Preds all he’s got and has a reasonable deal.
This is a Trotz issue.
Remember there is an IF here. We don’t know but IF true it could be a breach of trust.
Scoresberg
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What I meant with "worse than Buffalo" was that we won't have any prospects of getting better IN THE FUTURE. We're just going roll with these older veterans hoping for a miracle run that will never come. Meanwhile a younger player here and there will get a small look in the lineup after a season or two they'll decide to trade/waive them.
Whereas building through the draft, injecting the lineup with some younger players and actually giving them a proper chance to succeed is something I think most of us here could get behind. The team would be bad - as it is now, too. But there's at least some sort of a future outlook, rather than the bandaid-UFA strategy which is used now.
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Waking up after a good nights sleep to give me a different perspective on the situation, I realize now that my hockey team sucks.
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f*** that noise. Any GM who brings back a coach after taking a team that was designed to compete for a cup and is instead going to be bottom 3 in the league is clearly delusional and grossly incompetent.
We are screwed for many, many years
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Im on another board that has a middle finger reaction icon. We desperately need that here
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Kat Predator
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It's all about the likes.
Tavares. Maybe Nelson.
Two scoring lines of old dudes. One banger line of fodder for next TDL. And then a line of wet behind the ears kids, who'll be the scapegoats and get 6 minutes if they're lucky.
We probably need an old d-man to protect Josi's soft melon now that Schenn is gone, too.
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I gave Trotz the benifit of the doubt preseason trying to put a roster together that could get to the playoff and just maybe make a little noise. For what ever reason it did not work be it coaching system or chemistry if the players. There is no reason starting the year with the best top 6 that has been here in quite sometime. Yes the 2C was still a question but under no circumstance should they have been this bad. I hate to blame a coach since they do not shoot one puck or make one play. And Trotz was active to put together what should have worked for a couple years.
This organization has not experienced a rebuild in history. And what was fine this year has just delayed it by a year . The vets that are left look to be dihearten with the situation and who knows if they will be role models for new guys coming in. Then there is the inability to even develop defenseman now thru the organization. One thing is sure where ever the Preds pick in the draft it will be for the best player available and we can't question the pick. Unlike the years when Poile had glaring needs for forwards and would always find a way to draft a defenseman.
The road now looks to be long I'm not sure Trotz can draft and develop a team. It's for sure Brunette will not be helpful like many coaches are rebuilding. Trotz could succeed if he had a Paul Maurice or a guy like Dave Tippett or even Jon Cooper . We will see in bout 4 months what kind of start they get in a rebuild.
This organization has not experienced a rebuild in history. And what was fine this year has just delayed it by a year . The vets that are left look to be dihearten with the situation and who knows if they will be role models for new guys coming in. Then there is the inability to even develop defenseman now thru the organization. One thing is sure where ever the Preds pick in the draft it will be for the best player available and we can't question the pick. Unlike the years when Poile had glaring needs for forwards and would always find a way to draft a defenseman.
The road now looks to be long I'm not sure Trotz can draft and develop a team. It's for sure Brunette will not be helpful like many coaches are rebuilding. Trotz could succeed if he had a Paul Maurice or a guy like Dave Tippett or even Jon Cooper . We will see in bout 4 months what kind of start they get in a rebuild.
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