So what your saying is Nonis gets the job done, Burk said from the beggining he wanted a goaltender and work from the net out and never followed on that plan. Nonis learned from burk and actually follows that plan.
Hope he actually follows through.
The common knowledge, longstanding, tried and tested successful team building approach of building from the goalie out, through strong defense and strength down the middle through your centers is as old as time itself, and what I expect from Nonis.
Inexplicably and incomprehensibly (as to what he could possibly have been thinking) our former experienced GM
thought successful team building was accomplished by building from the Wings In (Kessel, JVR, Lupul, MacArthur) with weak centers, shaky defense and soft goaltending as his path taken, with a soft, small, easily intimidated team to boot.. All of which rightfully produced expected disastrous, bottom of the league standing end results for a very poor ill-conceived plan, you might expect from a greenhorn GM but not a experienced one.
Not only was the plan backasswards in approach to the norm, but the saddest part was that the best assets of top picks and prospects where used to go down this fatal road, leaving us where we are today settled near the bottom of the NHL.
Yesterday the TSN panel (MacKenzie or Dreger) confirmed that Nonis didn't support Burke fully on the Kessel trade, and wanted to take the slower patient approach at the time it occurred. So Nonis hopefully focuses his attention where its needed in #1 G and #1 C and building up the defense to provide a more successful on ice winning product.
