Okay, I looked it up. The first game Miro missed was the second night of a road back to back. Miro woke up too sore to play, and the Stars couldn‘t have gotten Harley to Boston in time for the game. After that, Miro was a game time decision where he missed two more. That three game stretch represents the sum total of Stars d injuries. This is not a good reason to be mad at Nill. He never had a real chance to call Harley up for injury reasons.
And I think you‘re entirely misrepresenting the Oettinger thing. Nill absolutely wanted Oettinger on the team last season. We know this because he made the necessary moves to get Oettinger on the team early on last season.
If you say so and want to believe it sure go ahead, but they can still call up a player to replace a "game time" decision. He chose not to.
He didn't want Oettinger in the NHL last year, evidence by the fact that he literally sent him to the f***ing AHL. Dude wasn't some paper cap manipulation move for a day or two. He literally didn't come back until mid November, long after Khudobin had proven, yet again, that he sucked, and they were left with no choice. Literally took the team having a losing record and Khudobin having a sub 900 save %.
I'm not mad at NIll for leaving Harley to play in the AHL. I'm sick of the stupid amount of mental gymnastics people are doing to defend every one of Nill's stupid ass decisions.
"He really wanted him(harley) here, but the world transpired against him. So he finally had to force it..."
He waited until long after the trade deadline, to check and see if a guy they had in the AHL might be helpful to a team bound for the playoffs, a team with glaring issues on the d-core.
"Nill absolutely wanted Oettinger on the team last season. We know this because he made the necessary moves to get Oettinger on the team."
A month and a half into the season Nill finally decided to waive the garbage goalie, he decided was a better NHL option, a move he could and should have f***ing done from day 1, but chose not to do. But he "absolutely wanted him in the NHL". He just made sure Khudobin got to shit the bed for a month and a half first to test his (Oettinger) character.
He then pissed away good assets for a defenseman with attitude issues, that's now eating Healthy scratches to Joel Hanley. Defended relatively recently as a "genius" move and could be a "trend setter".
To be fair, I don't have any issues with Lundkqvist as a player.
It's one thing to think things Nill does are good. but this whole jumping through ridiculous hoops to make everything he does seem like some great well thought out plan is assinine.
If he wanted Oettinger in the NHL last year, he isn't in the AHL until November 15, If he wanted Harley getting NHL minutes this year, he doesn't wait until 6 games left in the year to "force the issue". He didn't want either of them on the roster. His hand was forced.
Nils can't beat f***ing Joel Hanley for a spot in the lineup and Hanley was starting to do Suter impressions.
And i have no doubt in my mind that the plan for next year is the run back the exact same 6 defensemen they entered this year with. Considering all of them would have to pass through waivers except Harley.
And as we saw last year (and several times through the Nill years), he will absolutely burry an NHL caliber player who's waiver exempt for a worse player, until he literally has no other option.
And he is loyal to all his signings to a fault, so he won't even make moves to get out of mistakes.
I'm not a betting man, but i would literally bet my entire company, house, and bank account that he doesn't buyout Suter.
Talk about revisionist history.
