After 7 years it’s still Ken’s fault. Ok Mrs Yzerman.
*spits also
Yeah, that’s definitely the point I was making. And Yzerman definitely hasn’t improved the team at all starting from the pits of hell. He definitely hasn’t gotten them competitive despite being dealt a poison diarrhea hand. They weren’t one of the top teams in the league until the Olympics break this year. They haven’t been on brink of playoffs in an incredibly competitive conference the last couple years.
If you’re too dense to not see the objective progress that’s been made, again, with no lottery luck, and having to start from the ashes of abysmal generational decay, that’s your delusion. No where did I say Yzerman was perfect, but Yzerman has done a lot to get this team going in the right direction and his draft picks have actually been turning out solid relative to non-message board delusional expectations.
He’s absolutely made some confounding moves as well. I wish he’d done more “splash” moves at times too.
But Yzerman has absolutely and objectively by any measure got a once-sinking ship going in a far better direction than it was going when he took over, again, with no lottery luck, a city and losing culture no one wanted to come to, and essentially having to start from scratch with no chips to deal.
He doesn’t deserve an endless rope even if his name is Yzerman and he’s the GM in Detroit, but to dismiss the progress relative to acknowledging what he was dealt is simply an absurd position to defend, especially on the day the whiny little disappearing act cried to the media again.
Two years in a row this team was well on their way to the playoffs until their little captain pooped his diaper and cried about it on the sidelines. You build your team around trash leadership, that’s what you get.
I already said it, Yzerman’s worst move thus far is likely that he didn’t trade this clown to fully reset the culture years ago. Some of us have been ringing that bell for years. But again, to suggest that it was such an easy task relative to the broader situation isn’t a serious take.
But yeah, blame Yzerman for everything. Expect miracles and instant turnarounds in a 32 team league. Makes sense.
