I am not the one posting “Dorion defender” shit.
How will they turn it around? They will have the same roster minus Norris and Tarasenko, no prospects, no goaltending, Giroux will be one year older, and more frustrated than ever before.
Staios and company are going to have to figure out the mess they have inherited. They should have some salary cap room with the Norris contract and tarasenko contract and hopefully Chychrun contract and hopefully the kubalik contract and Brannstrom contract. And maybe even 1 or 2 other contracts. Plus the money from Bobby Ryan and matt murray. Staois and the management group have been apparently watching closelyand doing their research and hopefully they know who to grt rid of........oe else yes we are doomed. I agree the situation looks bleak but I am trying to be optimistic. I just can't wait for the deadline day to be overwith and see where we stand. I think moving on from Chabot would be good but seems unlikely. We have to hope Korpi just had an off year and that next year he will be better and maybe with a new dcore that will help our plight.The dcore is too soft. Too many fancy Dan floaters back there. No hitters back on defence is a recipe for disaster and we have seen our soft dcore get exposed on a nightly basis.
Ok, I think the language of blaming Dorion is a bit harsh in this case, as you said, they may have signed the contract knowing full well the return would be hamstrung and been fine with that since the alternative was not getting anything, I'm not thrilled with the return, but I don't blame Staios or Dorion, it was just a cost of doing business, you either sacrifice a future return by giving him the NMC or don't have him at all.
Easy to say now… but obviously we wanted Tarasenko at all costs because “we were a playoff team”
I suddenly feel like posting Canadian heritage minutes. Odawa predates Ottawa by only a few thousand years or so. But I'm pretty sure Ottawa is permissible these days buddy.
Complete focus on fixing the D and goaltending. I'd be fine with them trotting out the same forwards if we have a natural right handed dman on one of the top two pairings and a real goaltender.
Isn't it easier just to look at CapFriendly versus list players not under contract next year? CapFriendly takes care of all these details making it unnecessary to list the players not under contract (hence irrelevant to the topic of next year's cap hit).
And why were we thinking of jettisoning a useful/good player (Joseph) after signing Tarasenko? Whose fault was this? LOL.
Again easy to say now… Joseph had a shitty year, lots wanted him gone
Staois had no leverage and had to play the hand he was dealt. Tarasenko wanted to end up in Florida where his family lived and he had a NTC. Staois got what he could from Florida who was the only team Staois could trade Tarasenko to. Ottawa became a temporary, 1 year employer because better multi-year contracts were not offered to him last summer.
Yeah, that was a weird take. No one wanted to take Joseph from us in the offseason. We got stupid lucky he turned it around this year.
You didn't answer the question. Your obvious deflection was easy to say & see.
That response was a deflection and irrelevant to the question that was asked though.
That's just not true. Some of us advocated for not trading a guy when he's at the bottom of his value but waiting to see some improvement. Now would actually be a great time to trade him since he looks like such a great value contract. It's not luck that he turned it around, it was expected. The only aspect of surprise might be to the extent of the turnaround but it's not like this came out of nowhere.
I haven't gone back through the replies but you did bring up Joseph... If the question is why were we trying to jettison him, then the answer is because he was bad the year before.
Then 31 GMs are morons for not giving us peanuts for him when we IIRC were actively shopping him last year. Seeing as how it was expected and all.
To be more precise, I asked why we were in the position of having to move a player (i.e., any player including Joseph) & whose fault it was that we were in this position.
Not sure the situation is that dire. A good, top 4 D, a goalie and a good coach are the big needs. A more measured approach would seem possible and likely more meritorious. It seemed odd that new users have appeared recently to share their expertise.
Yes, the amount of hand wringing, consternation and panic the Tarasenko trade has caused is rather amusing & enigmatic.
Honestly, I think it depends on the return. If all you can get is a pick, then obviously you don’t trade him.
