- Dec 4, 2002
- 10,840
- 1,810
When the management knows exactly where their team is and what they wanna do, they make the right moves. Does anyone including Sakic and Roy know exactly where their team is and where they headed? Don't think anyone knows. This is the worst period for the Avs organization. Few years back when they were finishing dead last, at least they knew that the team is in rebuild mode, right now it's just big uncertainty where they are and where they headed or what they wanna do.
There's no doubt (IMO) that they are a bit schizophrenic in their approach. The O'Reilly trade was a rebuild transaction, the Boedker/Matthias trades were compete transactions, and the patch-the-holes-in-the-dike UFA signings the other day were again a rebuild transactions.
But, perhaps they really had no choice. The other thing at play is that Sakic/Roy have really hosed themselves in terms of managing the cap. Looking at just Stuart/Iginla, they are essentially paying ~$9M for a 40 year old 3rd line PP specialist. That's arguably worse than what Carolina did with Semin a few years back. If you make such large mistakes, there are going to be ramifications. Hence, they are going to struggle to sign all of their young RFAs and stay under the cap, and even if they manage it, does that look like a playoff roster?