Speculation: Trotz: "If we don't get it going, then I'm going to start our rebuild plan."

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Nashville sucked ass last year, the team was going to see U2 as a team building thing, it got cancelled because we sucked so bad and then we won like 17 games in a row and made the playoffs and lost in the first round again.

Is this real? What U2 show got cancelled? Like at The Sphere?

 

[Soundgarden]

Is this real? What U2 show got cancelled? Like at The Sphere?

Yes, at the sphere.

 

[GeauxPreds1]

He asked for it and generally we have always been an organization that once a player says they want to go we have no problem sending them out the door.
I mean it's not like Trotz just woke up one morning and said, " You know what? I feel like trading Askarov today "

Trotz told him as long as he had a good camp he would be the backup this year. He had already told Wedgewood before he signed the deal he would likely be in Milwaukee. So Askarov turned down the opportunity to be in the NHL this season.

As far as NJ getting him that's a conversation to have with your GM, he apparently wasn't willing to give up the right assets to get him.

I never seen that trotz told wedgewood that he would likely be in Milwaukee or heard in any like that in an interview. I seen that askarov could compete for the back up role but with wedgewood signing for 2 years the writing was on the wall that askarov was more than likely gonna end up in Milwaukee so he asked out. It’s not always the player fault like our management has always tries to blame. Sometimes or lately most times its mismanagement

 

[Osprey]

A popular misconception is that the Preds were so awful that they cancelled their trip to the U2 concert. Actually, U2 cancelled the concert when they learned that the Preds would be there.

 

[SeanMoneyHands]

Starts at 3:41

 

[Armourboy]

I never seen that trotz told wedgewood that he would likely be in Milwaukee or heard in any like that in an interview. I seen that askarov could compete for the back up role but with wedgewood signing for 2 years the writing was on the wall that askarov was more than likely gonna end up in Milwaukee so he asked out. It’s not always the player fault like our management has always tries to blame. Sometimes or lately most times its mismanagement

It was in Trotz's comments he made about the situation after the trade was done. Said he sat down with Askarov and explained the plan for this season, that he was on tap to be the back up for this season. Said he told Wedgewood when he offered the contract that he would likely be in Milwaukee and Wedgewood was fine with that situation. Then Askarov came back and said he wanted out so he started that ball rolling.

Can't remember specifically if I heard it on the radio, or if it was an article, but it was something I caught first hand, not something I read here. Pretty sure I posted about it on the Preds boards when it happened. I'll dig around in the Askarov thread and see if I can find it at some point. ( assuming that's where I put it, we can get spastic sometimes ).

 

[Lucas Hood]

Trotz seems to be GMing the same way he coached. He's both a players' GM in that he will give up someone for pennies on the dollar to give them an opportunity elsewhere, and not a players GM in that he will just get the players he likes and not work on trying to fit anyone else or discover new players and give them a chance to breka out. Unfortunately he's competing against 31 other teams and many of the top ones are there thanks to finding diamonds in the rough and getting much more out of them than their contracts stipulate (Verhaeghe, Montour, Bennett, Forsling for the Panthers last few years for example) on top of having tanked their way to excellent cores. You pretty much have to grit your teeth and extract value wherever you can as a GM to be successful in this league and that's just not him. If Matt Duchene isn't shot, figure out how to use him/fix the locker room dynamics before you buy him out and gift him to a rival while getting stuck with the ugly cap hit.

 

[sxvnert]

Or Trotz could acquire legit centers and move on.

 

[Master P]

Or Trotz could acquire legit centers and move on.

But this is more entertaining.

 

[Fatass]

Or Trotz could acquire legit centers and move on.

Easier said than done. Really good (younger) centres are either drafted or some club makes a steal trade to get one.

 

[Fjordy]

 

[Bjornar Moxnes]

Genuinely, what would their rebuild plan entail? Imagine they'd keep their new 3 dudes, plus Forsberg. ROR out? Saros? Nyquist?

If Sens are still in the playoff race, I wouldn't mind taking Nyquist for a later pick.

 

[Bringer of Jollity]

Easier said than done. Really good (younger) centres are either drafted or some club makes a steal trade to get one.

Yeah, it's a really easy argument to make without a clear way to make it happen. Trotz offered up Askarov plus our 1st and other assets for two drafts trying to find a way into the top of the draft for one. Poile repeatedly tried to acquire first line/top 6 centers (Johansen, Turris, Duchene) to very mixed results.

For the Preds, lack of top centers is already an ever-present acknowledgement before we get into what's REALLY going on with the team.

Now not trying to get a center that's somewhere between O'Reilly and Novak this offseas9n, and wasting $8M on Stamkos instead? That's fairer game.

 

[EdmFlyersfan]

Every GM should use this quote to try and get a career extension...lol

 

[joestevens29]

I mean I'm already tired of telling people that him and Forsberg both have full NMC's so if anything happens it will be because they want it to happen. If they want to stay in Nashville then we don't have a say one way or another really.

Weber was never leaving either

 

[Armourboy]

Weber was never leaving either

Weber didn't have a full NMC