At the same time, it’s not the Islanders before Lou or the Oilers that has been mismanaged for decades, Ottawa cutting costs.
I am not super impressed by Petersson here. I totally believes that a player does not owe a team one thing, and we definitely see a trend where players with very strong support and advisers, family members that are big NHL names and so forth, throw their weight around. But with like Vancouver? If you want to win, win. You shouldn’t want other players to win for you.
Look at Tampa, they are built to 95% by shrewd management. Stamkos is barely a top 9 for them 5 on 5 and more or less a burden Yzerman inherited. Hedman was a high pick. No reason Vancouver can’t do the same.
Tampa got very lucky hitting on some huge pieces early ( Hedman-Stamkos-Vasilefsky) and some huge pieces in the later rounds ( point-Kucherov, etc)
Then they traded for and signed proven secondary playoff talent that was battle tested in going beyond the first rd in the playoffs.
Largely coming from the ranger teams from the Torts AV era.
Boyle, Callahan, McD, Miller, Stralman, shatty etc and they also we for guys like Coburn etc
All while keeping their bottom 6 stocked with cheap young talent from good drafting in the later rounds. Even when they were trading their 1st rounders.
It was an excellent strategy but they were only really able to execute it because their main point producers/top end talent, was found early and locked in for 5 plus years.
There are many parallels when comparing to how the bolts we’re currently built to what the rangers have right now.
We just don’t have a 3rd round stud like point. Our crown gem basically forced his way to us and we were able to get him for 2 2nds. You need things like that to break for you if you want to be good for a long time.
