The NBA sucks, no thanks.
Dubas doesn't like Sullivan. But he was signed long term before Kyle even arrived. And you're right the core was what kept Sullivan here! They deserve the majority of the blame! Ownership as well but they'll relent as the money bleeds out more and more. To be clear, The Core is the primary culprit. If Sid moves, Sullivan likely does as well. If you look what he's doing as GM he's trying to make it so miserable for the core and Sullivan that maybe they'll ask out! OR, they can just twist in the wind and prolong their respective suffering. A bed by the way they made long ago. But Dubas isn't sending them reinforcements no, he'll sell off more pieces off if a player or players help extract value via trade.
Yeah, this is the crux of it for me.
I remember we were promised data and analytics and hard but smart choices. And half of this board ate that shit with a fork and asked for seconds
Why would you want them to TRY and turn it around? That's the very last thing this team needs right now. No, they need to plummet as much as possible. And not just this season, the next three seasons!
Teams can turn it around quick with a competent coach and organization. Continuously losing and blowing it up does not help anyone, just look at the Wings.
Liverpool is having a great season. FSG don’t care about us bums
But the Rangers didn't continue to mortgage their future like we did. We have nearly a bare cupboard. You just don't wanna go through a long period of misery. There's no quick fix here. We have to accrue top five overall picks. That'll take time. That doesn't guarantee success, however regaining our footing earlier would mire us in mediocrity.
He should leave! But the rebuild has already started. The Jake trade got the ball rolling.
Now that Sid got his 600th goal he should leave. We'll retain a bit and send him to COL for Mittelstadt plus a pick and prospect.
They’re rebuilding now afaic. They’re a bottom 3 team. That’s all you need to be to start a rebuild.
I think there's a difference between a planned rebuild and just being bad. I don't see a vision for this team, so I think it's just this team is bad (largely the direction of the GM and the inept coach behind the bench).
Ok f*** I gotta reply to at least this one.
Yeah, I expected that we would became a cutting throats team like the Vegas Golden Knight, not this soft retirement home for 4th liners.
I hate the VGK but they aren't the only team ok with moving on from legends - Tampa let Stamkos walk as well and San Jose let Pavelski walk as well as trading Marleau. We ended up with a f***ing moron for a coach, another f***ing moron for a GM and some of the dumbest f***s as owners. Keeping Malkin would have been fine the way the other teams ended up keeping at least 1 or 2 of their legends, Crosby should have walked, JR should have been allowed to deal Letang, etc.
I disagree. To do a successful rebuild you need far more than just being bad-- you need to start getting the pieces together and developing young talent now, because the role players are going to develop more slowly than the franchise player or two you might get while you're bad. So, we need to be developing more youth, finding role players and, yes, selling off young players too to build a supporting cast.
Exactly. It's the difference between a controlled demolition and a meth lab blowing up the trailer park. Guess which one we're in the middle of?
Exactly. You also need to dedicate a larger portion of your cap space to pick accumulation than they're doing.
You don’t like the nba. Perfect. Sounds like an easy fit for GM when we acquire the Celtics
I wish they would try loud quitting.
Yeah this is what I don’t get about people crowing about how good it is that we’re so bad. We’ve done none of the other legwork to rebuild, we’re just bad and setting ourselves up for a bad rebuild if we don’t change course quick.
