Lmfao if you compare prospects you do it by draft year. You don’t compare a 28 year old core to a 35 year old one and shriek “Edmonton’s making the playoffs more, they’re more successful”, they’re in different phases and that’s obvious. If you’re going to say 80% of the team was made, then 70%, and be wrong about both it doesn’t matter who is core. DSP and Eller scored two of the biggest goals in the playoffs, you think their rings care if they were “core”? I included the aces to point out that even if you aren’t just looking at the 18 man lineup, the team was full of GMBM acquisitions to the tune of more than 20-30%, it’s hard to say they win without a lot of those players and good pro scouting and depth signings is this crazy thing that Holland seems incapable of doing.
If we’re going by hiring year we at least get closer to an appropriate comparison with any fairness to GMBM, and the Caps basically just kept getting better every year until they won the President’s trophy, then won a cup. Yeah, GMBM built the best team in the regular season, then turned around and got a cup next year, the Oilers haven’t even won their division.
You’re writing off Carlson’s partner for the cup, a guy everyone recognized as good and important as a f***ing top pair D (for the time) is bullshit. I don’t care if you call them core, it’s not about equal value, it’s about building a winning team. He made a great pro scouting acquisition and it paid off huge, so that’s just a garbage argument top to bottom.
You keep moving the goalposts. If your best defenseman is Darnell Nurse and that’s a problem for you, maybe you don’t sign him to a laugher deal just because. So we’re Holland’s hands tied like a Backstrom contract or did he, you know, make a bad decision?
This isn’t baseball, it’s not about comparable perfectly measured scenarios, it’s about looking at the process of the GMs and how they worked with what they had, and what they’ve made. GMBM is crushing Holland there no question at all. This is stupid
