Because teams were gonna line up for a player doing that? There was like <10 NHL players in a league of 700, that didn’t do it.
Wilde was not some special prospect to accommodate. In reality, you are projecting onto a franchise known failures of the player (JHS - there’s enough here already) (Bellows - PEDs) (Wilde - his vaccination) and expecting value in a situation that other teams also view it the same - it’s on the player.
I've spent other posts here pointing out why I'm not merely projecting and that there were times along the way where, at least for our first rounders, it wasn't just on the player.
Why aren't you and others here not holding your favorite team's GM to higher standards?
We see GMs across the NHL making lateral moves for established NHLers and prospects alike, many with regularity.
Lou is in Year 5 here.
He hasn't done it once.
I repeat, he hasn't done it once.
In the meantime, we have seen three former first rounders become nothing for us along the way and exit without a whim.
We should all understand this as a negative.
Whether many fans are aware of this or not, one of the absolute key aspects of being a GM is evaluating when someone isn't going to be part of plans and doing so in a manner that allows you to turn him into another asset before it's too late. Anyone in the business will tell you this a critical success factor.
Again, this is Year 5 for Lou.
We've never even seen him attempt to achieve this key detail of GMing.
