I will say I have liked his picks. I can be objective on that. I havent liked a single FA signing outside of Teravainen, his contracts have mostly been awful, and trades have seemed weak. I am not fan of the coach either
Judging his UFA signings is silly. He needed to sign players to fill out a roster that was made to be among the worst in the league. You don't get your pick of the litter when your team is set up to be bad.
They went with the old Cubs rebuild strategy, a lot of short term deals to flip for assets, cap dumps and signings to get to the cap floor, they were intentionally awful because they need to get as many blue chip assets as possible at the top of the draft...this was their strategy going in and they've stuck to it, and should for another year or two until most of the high picks in pipeline are in the NHL...KD has mostly avoided the really bad UFA mistake, and hopefully he continues that this summer
He's had some absolute home run moves - Dach for Nazar, Rinzel in the last 1st, some really good value picks like Lardis...its way way too early to judge his work, NHL prospects take a long time relative to say the NFL or NBA where they're drafted and immediately hit the active roster. His intention was in the right place with the HC job with Carle but you can't force him to leave Denver. If he had him looking at houses then KD made a hell of a pitch.
Brodie was straight up awful. No getting around that but his contract won't prevent them from being able to do anything. I think the thought behind the 2nd year was that KD knew that the team had no vet Dmen on the roster going into this year other than Murphy and Jones. He probably would have rather given another year to Martinez but he probably indicated that he only had 1 year left to play.
Bertuzzi contract is fine, he's a 3rd line player, who scores 20G, that's what he makes.
