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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
With Brad T on the job, you can bank on it. If not Bollig then he'll find some other Grossmann type scrub to pay the difference to.
Wrong. It is a painful amount. Just not to you, who seems fine with bad hockey.
30th place in points percentage. An apologist like you would be "fine with it" for sure.
He's broken 60 twice, and over the last five seasons averages a 65 point pace.
Yes how badly we had to sign Monahan to 6.325 instead of a sensible bridge deal (until a time where some of Treliving's disaster contracts like Mason Raymond are no longer active) to see if he can prove he hasn't plateaued.
We didn't even have to buy Raymond out. We could have gone without Brouwer and be in the exact sample place we are right now in the standings, while having more cap space ready to be spent next offseason.
Sorry, but none of Treliving's actions were forced upon him.
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Post that classically highlights a fan who is incorrectly under the assumption that we were suppose to be a contender this year.
Our best players are babies. Most of which went directly into the NHL, didn't even have any seasoning time elsewhere, and we are surprised 3 seasons in (for the most senior of those players) that they might not be delivering yet. The cap space if fairly irrelevant until those young players are ready to be in their prime. Amazing how we've gone to screaming as a fan base to develop our key players from within, to raging about how we could have been spending cap space on expensive UFAs...........seems like this is the opposite of what we wanted just 3 short years ago.
This team is going to go as it's best players go, and almost exclusively, our best players, or said best, our players that need to be our best players for us to be a contender (Monahan, Gaurdreau, Bennett, Tachuk, Hamilton and Brodie) for the most part haven't hit close to their prime yet, and are going to be susceptible to major growing pains, which means inconsistent levels of play at the moment.
We can micro analyse to death some of the UFA moves made, but that's not what's holding this team back right now. What's holding them back is waiting for that player list above to mature a little more. I'm frustrated too, would have preferred better results, but this team isn't failing right now because we signed the wrong UFAs, or Bollig is in the minors, or Grossman ate up some cap space, it's failing because we don't have enough top end players. We have the top end talent right now (or so it seems), but our young core clearly isn't ready to hit that next level, and while that's disappointing, if you take a step back, it shouldn't be surprising.
Your comment on rushing to a Monahan contract just shows how off base you are. Now I'm not saying that you might not be right about Monahan, but the truth of the matter is, we won't know for a few more years. Treliving didn't sign him to a 7 year deal now because he was convinced he was worth $6M now versus a bridge deal, he signed him to that because he felt 2 years from now, he'd be worth more than that, and that's when we want him on the best deal we can get. Maybe Treliving has backed the wrong pony, but you have no clue if that's true or not at this point in time. This team wasn't built to win this year, it simply couldn't be given the age of our young players. This fan base has truly lost the plot on what being comfortable with a re-build actually meant, and we should all remember this the next time we are crying about management trying to build a winner with aging vets and how much happier we'd be if they'd just commit to the rebuild. That lasted all of one season around her, then right out the window.