The timing of the firings didn't make sense in the moment. And the more time goes by, the less sense it all makes. The reasons to wait til the off-season far outnumber the reasons to fire the GM and President with three games left in the season. It feels incredibly impulsive. Impulsive decision making from the top of a company just makes everyone below them depressed. It's like living with an unsteady alcoholic parent.
The entire team looks as if it's going through grief. Not for a lost season but for feeling like they're playing for a lost franchise.
There was a plan a week ago. And it's not to say Drury won't do his best to keep to the plan. But we all know that the plan has changed. That the Owner no longer trusts the plan. No longer believes in the patience JD spent two years talking about.
Must of us know Laf, Kakko, Jones, Miller, Kravtsov, Lundkvist, etc they need time. They need seasons before they hit their prime. Forcing trades because they're not playing up to their potential/prime years or asking them to carry the team prematurely is a surefire way to destroy the work of the last three seasons.
Drury at the presser said, he wants to win a cup. "A" cup???? Weren't we talking about building a team that can contend for a decade? WTF is this talk? A Cup?
Last thing Ill say on this:
If you're going into an off-season where you've telegraphed to the league you're going be aggressive in the trade market, it's generally not a good idea to put a rookie GM in charge of it. It's suddenly trading from a perceived weakness. We talk all the time about asset management. Good asset management more often than not requires trading from a position of strength. This move isn't that.
