Where did Yzerman go wrong with the rebuild?

[Oddbob]

You should still be able to avoid a DNQ by year 4-5. I will give a GM a mulligan of even
winning a round but not being one of 16 freaking teams? Not giving any mulligans for that.

Yeah, if the goal was just to make the playoffs they could have done that by now. Yzerman doesn't want one and done type stuff.

 

[Rzombo4 prez]

More than one person with connections to the team, have said that Walman alienated himself from some of the Wings locker room after his injury and while Larkin was out with his injury. I doubt highly Steve just traded him for some very small issue. The 2nd is a head scratcher as even if he was a problem it seems that there were teams who would have just claimed him anyways. The Trouba trade obviously was also part of it, and I get from Trouba being upset with Drury for the handling of it, that Drury may have made Steve believe as though that trade was a basically done and ready to go.

In my eyes, the 2nd shows just how big of an issue he was in the room or organization. As a basic move to simply open cap space, it makes little to no sense. Perhaps this is why STL had no issues tossing him into the deal in the first place.

Regardless of how I feel about the approach, I don't see how you can watch this team and not think Yzerman has fully committed to that second option. Nearly the entire roster is made of two categories of players:
1) Long term investment / prospect.
* Berggren
* Debrincat
* Edvinsson
* Johansson
* Kasper
* Larkin
* Raymond
* Seider

2) Band-aid.
* Chiarot
* Copp
* Compher
* Fischer
* Gustafsson
* Holl
* Kane
* Lyon
* Maatta
* Motte
* Petry
* Talbot
* Tarasenko

Other than debating Debrincat, the only guys that could be in a grey area are Rasmussen and Veleno. (Personally I view Veleno as 100 percent band-aid, but I could see the debate based on age.)

Is it frustrating to see such a long list of placeholders? Sure. But how is that not committing to slow playing the kids?

I don't see how you even ice an NHL roster without signing UFAs.

 

[FMichael]

In my eyes, the 2nd shows just how big of an issue he was in the room or organization. As a basic move to simply open cap space, it makes little to no sense. Perhaps this is why STL had no issues tossing him into the deal in the first place.


I don't see how you even ice an NHL roster without signing UFAs.

Gotta wonder if Fabbri was part of it all (was Walman's teammate in St Louis).

 

[SirloinUB]

In my eyes, the 2nd shows just how big of an issue he was in the room or organization. As a basic move to simply open cap space, it makes little to no sense. Perhaps this is why STL had no issues tossing him into the deal in the first place.


I don't see how you even ice an NHL roster without signing UFAs.

Detroit was under the cap floor heading into the offseason Copp and Chairot were signed. If it wasn't those two it would have been Gudbranson and Burakovsky or some other mid level UFAs.

 

[Frk It]

In my eyes, the 2nd shows just how big of an issue he was in the room or organization. As a basic move to simply open cap space, it makes little to no sense. Perhaps this is why STL had no issues tossing him into the deal in the first place.

What kind of issue is it going to cause over the summer? Just wait and waive him. I think he gets claimed.