Did anyone actually listen to what he said? Does everyone just extrapolate and draw conclusions that fit their views?
Here is exactly what he said:
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We want to get younger, we want to get faster, we feel we need to get bigger, and again it is a change in direction, we want to stockpile assets, we have to start building assets in the organisation. You know I made the comment today that the mandate is to make the playoffs next year, and people exploded that somehow or another this was a "the rebuilds over already, its done already" that wasn't the point, The point was that's always the goal, that's what we are going to work toward. The one thing we won't do and don't want to do is we don't want to be in a situation where we say it's alright to lose, you know we're young, we're inexperienced, next year for example, that's not gonna carry here. We wanna get better quicker, but we also wanna take the right steps. No post-apex players as John Weisbroad calls them. And again we have to go in a different direction.
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then speaking of the summer he says :
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its gonna be very very busy, i think what we've done is we have positioned ourselves for maximum flexibility, we have the ability to step up to the podium and make those picks, and i think there are gonna be some good draft picks. we like this draft. again we know there are teams that are gonna have cap trouble, we're not gonna bring in post apex players, but we think we're in a position to capitalise with some of those teams.
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So the goal as an NHL organisation is to make the playoffs every year. That to me is likely the goal of every single other NHL team as well is it not? This to me doesn't signal shortsightedness or eyeing a 1 year rebuild its just a GM saying that losing is not OK. Which really is a pretty innocuous statement IMO.
He then talks about being a good position with lots of cap room and being able to hopefully get players that are left out due to teams needing to get under the salary cap. Not a bad position to be in. And actually echos exactly the original posters sentiment.