Lots of the additions have worked just fine if you put them in the context of their place in the roster. Dubas swung and missed a lot at those positions, every GM does, and Siegel is conviently forgetting that.
But it's all window dressing. The core still defines this team and it's the same as it was before. The rest is window dressing. This team will make the playoffs and Alex Kerfoot and Justin Holl vs Max Domi and Simon Benoit or whatever isn't going to be what takes us to a Cup.
Are you sure about that? Reaves Klingberg and Domi are nearly $9m that could’ve been used in much better ways to bolster the line up. Heck, add kampf’s $2.5m to the tally of poorly spent funds.
Firing a productive, useful and cheaper player who fills a utility like Lafferty into the sun to keep a plug like Reaves is just a prime example of what Jonas (and many others capable of seeing the big picture) are pointing out.
There’s too many guys who don’t do the things this team needs them to do at a high enough level. There’s a group here who always bellyached that previous iterations of the team were lacking in certain qualities and while that might be true, there wasn’t a lot of lacking in utility and usefulness. Also the previous regime was pretty quick to paper over a mistake at a minimal loss, which is probably why a lot of us were all expecting/hoping Reaves to be buried by now but alas he still exists on this roster for whatever reason.
Dubas - nerdy twerp
Jonas - nerdy twerp
Mirtle - nerdy twerp
Mystery solved. The only mystery that remains is who are Jonas and Mirtle on this site. To the Mystery Machine….
Dubas- successful sports manager
Jonas- successful columnist and podcaster
Mirtle- highly successful news editor
How about you?
