GMs should be evaluated by what they do, not by their prior experience, and all of the GMs being discussed had experience when they were hired anyway.
Except that's not a requirement for "knowing what it takes to win".
This is a weird comment, considering you had the Leafs winning in 6.
6.96m x 6 was fair.
You keep repeating this statement as if it's fact. Why? We had AM and Kadri as a 1-2...how is that a weakness? If we had any weaknesses it would have been at 3rd and 4th line center...not 2nd line. I am pretty sure a 3rd or 4th liner doesn't command huge dollars. Kadri had just been suspended for the 1st time...so there was no reason to believe he would lose his mind again the following playoffs. He was just fine as a number 2. JT was a luxury we didn't need at the time and it screwed up our timeline by accelerating it.
Our entire organizational depth at center was essentially Matthews, Kadri, and Gauthier, with nothing on the horizon, and Kadri had already shown himself to be unreliable. Tavares was a high-end player who solidified our center position, gave us a deadly one-two punch, and helped counter the offensive losses we had that offseason.
Our clock had already started. Our rebuild was long done. Getting Tavares turned what would have been wasted years into a legitimate chance to win.
That part of the cap going up seems to be lost on a lot of people. Players look for % of the cap in negotiations...if cap go up...% of the pie make dollar go up. It's not like you're going to be getting Kampf and Bunting for the deals you signed if the cap was 91M....I really don't understand the fact that they can't admit it's true.
So we needed a 4th line center (to be rid of Gauthier) and a 3rd since Bozie was leaving. So instead of getting a guy like Kampf...we got JT for $11M....gotcha.
I wouldn’t consider the rebuild long done when making the playoffs wasn't an almost guaranteed result. Let’s face it, the defence was hideous and the goaltending was, Freddy Andersen.
Will be interesting to see what will be left from the Kadri fleecing once we dump Kerfoot.
You have to read between the lines
Fleecing is interesting choice of words. We got one more season of Kerfoot instead of Kadri with 1million less. Kerftoot is more suitable for the role we had for him in the team. Kadri wasn't tremendous as our 3rd line C and many of us were concerned that we lose value by keeping him. Also Barrie with 50% contract was defender for us back then when we needed those. Would have liked to trade Kadri for other dman, but don't think there was too much market for him to be able to do that.
Glad we can agree that it's ridiculous to attack a GM for their prior experience. When somebody does that, it really just demonstrates a lack of legitimate argument.
I don't think he should get an "A++++++ extra credit". Once again putting words in people's mouths.
Not sure why you're talking about basketball all of a sudden, but being athletic is kind of a requirement to play in the highest professional basketball league.
So maybe don't go around throwing stones when you were more wrong than the person you're throwing at.
If you falsely believe David Pastrnak wasn't a comparable, then I still can't see how you think it's not fair.
Would be quite the upgrade itself, though we actually still had Kadri with Matthews and Tavares.
We had already moved into a phase where we sent out high picks for a goalie, signed UFAs to make us more competitive, acquired rentals, used our players as own rentals, etc. Without Tavares, we would have taken a step back instead of forward, but whether or not we were guaranteed to make the playoffs, we were guaranteed to finish high enough that rebuilding was no longer a viable strategy.
That may be your opinion, but it's not mine.
Not only is that a bad analogy, but that's not even what was being discussed. The point was that you don't need to play in the NHL to "know what it takes to win".
Still only you. I'm just relaying what you voted, because you attempted to weirdly throw stones about something you were more incorrect about.
Unlike many here, I do know how comparables and contract valuation works, which is why I understand that Nylander was not overpaid, and contract valuation is about more than just cherry picking one other player's raw points, incorrectly adjusted and contextualized, in exclusively their final season and calling it a day.
No, you're leaving out quite a bit.
