The Nuge
Some say…
I agree but at the same time I think he should have a certain amount of leeway. We have the benefit of hindsight and armchair GMing.
Like the Nurse contract. He had a career year and the market price was set. If we let him go and he took another step forward then Holland would have been fired already
Exactly. When we signed him, he was a 26 year old 6’4 #1 dman who could skate, shoot, pass, hit, fight, etc. Not to mention, he was 7th in Norris voting. And to top it off, we had just lost Klefa and Larsson within a year, for reasons outside of our control. We couldn’t let Nurse walk, and he was worth paying that money. Heck, even last year the advanced stats models said he was still worth his money. His downfall this year has been brutal, but your not expecting that from a guy at 29, and you can’t blame the GM for it