Knies let down by team and keefer. Teams afraid of confrontation.

[Notsince67]

Kid had a concussion and was ruled out for the entire series, you want him to come back with concussion symptoms and square off with Bennett and risk significant head injury ? Nothing manly about that, that's just stupidity. Situations like that the leaders on the team need to step up and teach Bennett a lesson, it never happened.

Not at all but it was playoff hockey. Knies needed to make a big presence felt early. It might have deterred the shenanigans. Fighting Bennett after the fact by anybody wouldnt have really did a thing because it wouldnt have been personal. Live and learn. Next year, he needs to collect on the debt Bennett owes him to let everyone know who not to f with. This aint the NCAA hockey anymore. Use Gods gifts

 

[AvroArrow]

Not at all but it was playoff hockey. Knies needed to make a big presence felt early. It might have deterred the shenanigans. Fighting Bennett after the fact by anybody wouldnt have really did a thing because it wouldnt have been personal. Live and learn. Next year, he needs to collect on the debt Bennett owes him to let everyone know who not to f with. This aint the NCAA hockey anymore. Use Gods gifts

This we can agree on

 

[Donnie740]

Yep, Dubas thinks he could revolutionize the game and finesse his way to a Cup. Tells you he's a guy that is completely naive about NHL hockey that's been around for over 100 years.

The most puzzling thing is why does he think it's these 4 core players that could win it all? Guy literally bet half the salary cap on 4 forwards who hasn't proven anything, while scrambling around to build a d corp and trying to luck his way into finding a competent goalie...that is literally amateur hour.

That’s always been my issue with Dubas. He’s never played hockey in his life and has little to no experience on the management side but he pretends to be the smartest guy in the league.

You’d think after two, three, four years of abject failure, he’d realize his approach to constructing an NHL team is laughably flawed.