I don't know if I'm a "Holland supporter" or not. The not dealing Flip/Hudler for assets doesn't bother me much because the assets wouldn't be significant unless we dealt them at the trade deadline rather than after the season. But dealing them at the trade deadline essentially says you're giving up on any sort of playoff run because you're dealing your quality depth. It's easy to look back on that, knowing how the playoffs played out, and say it was a bad move. Unless we got something back that was really nice (mid1st rounder? bluechip prospect? young, quality player?), I'm not sure that's a move any of us make at the time.
I don't like drafting goalies high, so that's always okay with me.
And I'm still okay dealing a first for Quincey. We needed some type of insurance for Lidstrom leaving, and injuries were gutting us at the time. we could go back to all of our picks that we traded and point to some guy picked there or afterwards and say, " We could have had Player X."
I've already said I'm not thrilled with the Cleary signing but am willing to wait and see how the roster shakes out, and that my problem with signing Sammy was that Holland didn't make any other moves to move another vet out to compensate.
I'm not happy with Holland's recent roster management, but I don't think he's destroyed the organization, either. And there is always the chance that the roster ends up looking like something we want.