They already tried moving him this TDL and there was no interest for anything valuable at least. I'm glad we kept him. It simultaneously changed nothing in the standings while letting the young players here know they're not playing for a purposeful loser.
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They also have trouble accepting or understanding the realities a team faces in a hard cap league.
It was a clown show when Bowman was out here sending futures out the door for Seth Jones.
So in short you’d rather be mediocre over rebuilding and trying to get better. Be a flames fan then. The OKC style rebuild is gonna become a lot more popular in sports soon.
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If the bulls actually did a rebuild the style KD is going for and what OKC did maybe there would actually be optimism about them. It’s amazing people were hyped over them making a play in series only to get blown the hell out
I mean when it takes 2-4 years for guys to finally make the NHL and the cupboards were bare to start with yeah its going to take a while to identify your new core. Now that roughly half the team is going to be young guys we can finally start identifying the core pieces. Not sure how drafting more prospects(especially in top 2 rounds) could possibly ever slow that process down.
Jed Hoyer and his underling laugh at this.
10-12 kids who will be in the NHL, some of whom may be relied on long term and they're going to put them with a guy who never coached any level before. That's not a Eaton problem, that was a poor planning problem. LR lost the team in winter of 24' should have been bodies in place to smooth a very likely transition, staff was still running lean on the top and Danny has shown no aversion to spending money.
Picking by skill should be easy enough for the staff in place but I don't know how you properly identify a core to win with when nobody is playing winning NHL shifts for a long time now. We're going to see alot of ABC line stuff and Kurashev-24' play out.
the best contention window Hoyer and Theo had in Chicago was after they did exactly what Davidson is doing right now
nah this isnt the take. I was fine being bad the year before Bedsy, fine being bad to get Bedsy, was fine being bad last yr. I am done being ok chasing last place in yr 5. He will now have had 4 straight yrs of high picks and lots of top 50 shots. Its time to start moving up
Why do people that seemingly want to make a push to the middle act so disingenuous about this thing? "Miracle kids"... where exactly do people think top players in the NHL came from? Did they just pop out of the sky one day as 27 year olds? McDavid, Draisaitl, Barkov, Reinhart, Tkachuck, RNH, Ekblad, Bouchard, Bennett..... once upon a time all of these guys were "miracle kids" and nothing more than draft prospects. All of them went very high in the draft in their respective years. That is how players are initially allocated across the NHL teams. When you have them when the are 18, you have full control of them until they are at least 23, and then more time to do what you want as far as trying to extend them or maybe trade them for something else beneficial. None of those players were in the Stanley Cup Finals when they were 19 years old. You have to wait around for the big lag time between when you draft them and when they all hit their primes, and hopefully by then you are a team also competing for a Staney Cup. That's just how it goes.
Still has to sign Tucker
That is how a rebuild goes are you seriously this dumb?
Ricketts says "hold my beer we won't break even"
Yet Poles got them on the Bears.....
The Hawks were slop last year after Davidson said they should show a little more compete in a pre season presser. They didn't. They looked worse.
