It was a mistake that cost us a year and a half of points and ran Freddy into the ground.
Sure everything eventually leaks, that’s the nature of the industry and I don’t think kyles particular issue here was with that overall, but more in this instance specifically which to me indicates they were probably at a stage where the leak came from a place too high up Chicago’s chain of command to keep confidence in their integrity.
I’ll agree with you here, if they falter in the post season and they sit on their hands again then all bets are off imo. I’d keep the coach, I think he’s pretty good. All the rest you mentioned along with Kerfoot and maybe muzz would all be up for consideration as well in an effort to change the mix.
I’m pretty sure he and shanny signed extensions in the last season or two, same with Keefe.
Imagine this team but with a 90m cap? That’s what he was banking on when handing out those deals.
Good thing he’s learned from mistakes and doesn’t sit on his hands and taking Lou’s advice of “have time, use it” to heart any longer.
Why ? Who cares who his replacement might be as long as they improve the team. Dubas isn’t the only good GM candidate in hockey and they may need somebody who can make the tough decisions without having loyalty to the current players.
he was banking on the kids taking discounts that's why he went on the ''we vs me'' endless media campaign
We live in an immediate gratification society, Bert. If it isn't working all at once then throw it away, don't bother to fix it. Wife isn't putting out -- get a new one. Car needs some maintenance -- trade it in. The lane next to you looks faster -- change, change and change again. Prospects aren't developing fast enough -- bury them and then wonder why you can never develop your own players.
i'm just correcting you on what Dubie's plan was when he signed JT and it wasn't to wait for years for the cap to go up to be able to build a team around three 11m dollar forwards
He’s gone if they lose in the first round. It’s his coach, his team, he wears it. Only a loser organization keeps accepting embarrassment year after year, he’s had his bullets. I’ll leave his own words to start this season:
The cap literally flattened the first year of Matthews and Marners deal.
Dubas is no Masai and neither is Shanahan. They don’t hold the players accountable. Keefe tells it like it is about their play being soft and purposeless. Dubas rakes him over the coals so Keefe has to backtrack. Losing is too easily accepted by management, the players and a lot of the fan base. They haven’t won in the playoffs because they don’t rise to the occasion and Dubas continues to go with the same core group. No urgency to win. Blue and White disease rains supreme.
Are the Avs a loser franchise for sticking with sakic when he took a playoff team with Mack duchene landy etc to three straight finishes in the central basement? David Poile is literally the only gm nashville has ever had and they always stay competitive.
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What a terrible analogy, I recall watching them the last three years after we lost in the first round.
So would every other team. Also it’s not just the Leafs that had to deal with the covid cap. He needed to adjust to the fact that the cap was going to go up but instead he opted to keep going with the core 4 taking 40% of the cap.
