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polak · 11-23-2016, 02:30 PM

The pro-Brad fans seem to be really hung up on defending Brads trades on paper.

Us "no patience" fans as you say, aren't doubting that he can win trades or negotiate well. We doubt the plan in place. This team looks more and more like a team that is just not built well. Has no identity, no real strength and nothing really to develop. Please tell me what part of Brads plan looks like it's working to you guys? What area looks like a strength? Seems like the only thing we were good at last year, our offense, was solely due to the high flying offensive system which tanked the teams defense in favor of inflated goal totals. Now we don't have the "High flying offensive D system" or the "terrible Goalie" excuse for our defensive woes but we've also lost pretty much all of our scoring. We have a team that can't play short handed or score on the PP and hasn't really been able to do either consistently for two years under two different regimes now.

We also are being told by the optimistic fans that we shouldn't expect linear progression in a rebuild, ignoring the fact that two years of regression is not a positive sign in anyway, you can't say that and then also assume that Bennett, Hamilton, Monahan are just young players and they guaranteed to improve. Most players don't continue to improve. Lots of players show signs of some skill but can never put it together.

I don't know. Maybe you can convince me I'm wrong but things are grim so you can stop complaining that the diehard fans of the 30th place NHL team who have had to deal with 8 years of crap and (sure, I'll give it to you) 4 years of poor rebuilding garbage are beginning to get fed up.

11-23-2016, 02:30 PM	#524
polak In the Sin Bin Join Date: Aug 2012 Exp:	The pro-Brad fans seem to be really hung up on defending Brads trades on paper. Us "no patience" fans as you say, aren't doubting that he can win trades or negotiate well. We doubt the plan in place. This team looks more and more like a team that is just not built well. Has no identity, no real strength and nothing really to develop. Please tell me what part of Brads plan looks like it's working to you guys? What area looks like a strength? Seems like the only thing we were good at last year, our offense, was solely due to the high flying offensive system which tanked the teams defense in favor of inflated goal totals. Now we don't have the "High flying offensive D system" or the "terrible Goalie" excuse for our defensive woes but we've also lost pretty much all of our scoring. We have a team that can't play short handed or score on the PP and hasn't really been able to do either consistently for two years under two different regimes now. We also are being told by the optimistic fans that we shouldn't expect linear progression in a rebuild, ignoring the fact that two years of regression is not a positive sign in anyway, you can't say that and then also assume that Bennett, Hamilton, Monahan are just young players and they guaranteed to improve. Most players don't continue to improve. Lots of players show signs of some skill but can never put it together. I don't know. Maybe you can convince me I'm wrong but things are grim so you can stop complaining that the diehard fans of the 30th place NHL team who have had to deal with 8 years of crap and (sure, I'll give it to you) 4 years of poor rebuilding garbage are beginning to get fed up. Last edited by polak; 11-23-2016 at 02:35 PM.