Both “sides” of dubas are on completely different ends who having differing opinions on the key things he did. Most people either thought be sucked, or was amazing. There is a little middle ground, but majority doesn’t fall here. Personally, I fall closer to the thinking of he wasn’t good, but not completely hating him, but I also wasn’t a fan of the team during Matthews and nylanders contract negotiations, only during marners so whilst I don’t like their contracts at all, I don’t really know the intricate details that others do. (Maybe this is why I like Marner the least lol, I saw his contract negotiations play out)
Some defend his signings of the core 4 and defend the players themselves no matter what, whereas some completely hate the signings, saying it’s the reason the team is failing, and believe the players aren’t as good as we think. His fans think his drafting was elite, but his haters think it’s below mediocre. Some liked how he signed free agents, others think he signs bad contracts and finds ways to move them using draft capital. Ditto for trades. Both sides have very little to no common ground on what dubas did right or wrong.
I don’t really care either way, we have treliving right now and he’s been about as successful as dubas was, not a high bar but it’s a bar that the toilet bowl teams of the Atlantic (sens, sabres, wings) would die for. I try not to really care or think about dubas unless he is brought up in the some thread, usually where someone is defending something he did or putting treliving down by using dubas. I find this BS because dubas was by no means a good gm, and with so much failure attached to his brand, it doesn’t make sense to me to go out of your way to defend him
