Lots of meaningful and spot on comments across this board.
Allvin & R let things spin out of control this year. If you are a top end manager you need to anticipate and get on situations earlier. These type of people are the ones that ultimately win. If you end up letting events or situations overtake you then you, and anything you are trying to run, will turn into a morass. There was very little pro-active are even thoughtful about anything that Canuck management did this off season or during the season.
Some of the players picked up in the off season such as Heinen and Deharnais displayed an ignorance on the part of scouting. Desharnais especially was a joke and whoever advised picking him up should have been fired long ago.
Not getting ahead of the Miller situation led to losing a top end NHL forward and getting back mid level players in return.
Losing Zadorov and then apparently trying to get him was fessing up to a mistake. Letting him walk meant they got nothing. If they had to spend a couple of thousand more would have meant they had, at least, a tradeable commodity. The defense was severely weakened by his loss and the replacement players were not close to being as good.
Whole situation with Pettersson should have been dealt with a long time ago. Just festered away all season.
Relying on Demko to return to form, after his history of injury, was relying on luck rather than reasoned thought. They should have monitored the Demko situation throughout the summer and if there was whiff of news that his injuries were not healing quickly and completely, they should have been on the goalie situation immediately. They did fluke out and get Lakanin but even there they short termed him (and ended up having to pay more) and they were lucky he was still available after they hummed and hawed about signing him.
Now they stumble through the trade deadline. Boeser had to be traded and it should have happened a long time ago. Boeser has always been mediocre (and many occasions less than this) given his overall game. There has been ups and downs but since his back injury when he was driven into the open gate, his skating has never been good enough. I've pushing trading him for years when you could have got something. Now, as the market has firmly established, he has lost most of his value. Other managers and scouts watch him play and can see the problems and the fact that he is a complete non factor most of the time.
I realize the Allvin did have problems moving Boeser but this again illustrates the lack of foresight the team is displaying. They let an asset depreciate and ended up with nothing.
Hard to say which deadline was worse. Likely the Benning one but this is still bad enough. Also the fact that Allvin is comparable to Benning in terms of this deadline is enough to send chills down your spine, Moreover, if Aquaman was allowed to have any say in these moves then present management is gutless and useless.
This team should have definitely been sellers at this trade deadline. Given the Hughes and Demko situations, their lack of offense, management needed to recognize that trying to eke into the playoffs and avoid looking to future, was not the way to go. Most any educated fan of the team could clearly see this and if this managerment couldn't, then they you have wonder if know what they are doing.
Allvin & R let things spin out of control this year. If you are a top end manager you need to anticipate and get on situations earlier. These type of people are the ones that ultimately win. If you end up letting events or situations overtake you then you, and anything you are trying to run, will turn into a morass. There was very little pro-active are even thoughtful about anything that Canuck management did this off season or during the season.
Some of the players picked up in the off season such as Heinen and Deharnais displayed an ignorance on the part of scouting. Desharnais especially was a joke and whoever advised picking him up should have been fired long ago.
Not getting ahead of the Miller situation led to losing a top end NHL forward and getting back mid level players in return.
Losing Zadorov and then apparently trying to get him was fessing up to a mistake. Letting him walk meant they got nothing. If they had to spend a couple of thousand more would have meant they had, at least, a tradeable commodity. The defense was severely weakened by his loss and the replacement players were not close to being as good.
Whole situation with Pettersson should have been dealt with a long time ago. Just festered away all season.
Relying on Demko to return to form, after his history of injury, was relying on luck rather than reasoned thought. They should have monitored the Demko situation throughout the summer and if there was whiff of news that his injuries were not healing quickly and completely, they should have been on the goalie situation immediately. They did fluke out and get Lakanin but even there they short termed him (and ended up having to pay more) and they were lucky he was still available after they hummed and hawed about signing him.
Now they stumble through the trade deadline. Boeser had to be traded and it should have happened a long time ago. Boeser has always been mediocre (and many occasions less than this) given his overall game. There has been ups and downs but since his back injury when he was driven into the open gate, his skating has never been good enough. I've pushing trading him for years when you could have got something. Now, as the market has firmly established, he has lost most of his value. Other managers and scouts watch him play and can see the problems and the fact that he is a complete non factor most of the time.
I realize the Allvin did have problems moving Boeser but this again illustrates the lack of foresight the team is displaying. They let an asset depreciate and ended up with nothing.
Hard to say which deadline was worse. Likely the Benning one but this is still bad enough. Also the fact that Allvin is comparable to Benning in terms of this deadline is enough to send chills down your spine, Moreover, if Aquaman was allowed to have any say in these moves then present management is gutless and useless.
This team should have definitely been sellers at this trade deadline. Given the Hughes and Demko situations, their lack of offense, management needed to recognize that trying to eke into the playoffs and avoid looking to future, was not the way to go. Most any educated fan of the team could clearly see this and if this managerment couldn't, then they you have wonder if know what they are doing.
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