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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
So we've gone from unnamed core player to veteran defender (which could be an unnamed core player).
So they didn't plan to miss the playoffs (indication the plan wasn't good?)
So (new) plan is move veteran defender to get back into 1st round/make room for new young player. Trade Brodie? Trade Giordano? Trade Hamilton? Only veterans D on the roster other than stone and hamonic who were just acquired. Unless you think the plan was sign stone and trade for hamonic and then deal them 12 months later (doesn't sound very plausible or like a very good plan).
Are the flames going to be able to move a defender for the same value they spent on hamonic and stone? Do you get a 1st and 2x2nds for Brodie? If not, that's a net loss of assets in my mind for a season you don't make the playoffs. Good Plan? Sticking with the process?
I think not making the playoffs when the team has spend 1st, 3x2nds, 2x3rds, 1x5th, 1x7th in a calendar year is not a very good plan. In my opinion, it is so all over the place that it speaks to competing plans with competing priorities.
Re-aquiring some of the picks traded away would, in my opinion, indicate backtracking on that plan, further solidfying that it was indeed not a very good plan.
If they have changed plans over the course of a single season from going for it to moving veteran defenders, I'd argue that's no plan, just a series of reactions.
An example of a plan was Tre moving Glencross and Russell regardless of the playoff position the team was in. That's a plan, and it was a good one.
Moving a ####load of draft picks and missing the playoffs doesn't strike me as a plan, it strikes me as a relative disaster that requires a new plan to dig themselves out of the problems created by the old plan.
So, to get back to my original point you took umbrage with, I'd say trying to recoup draft picks by dealing veteran roster players following a season of missing the playoffs is such a bad plan it's indicative of no plan. It reads more like a reaction than a strategy.
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Well I think you're fundamentally saying that regardless of the plan, or how many times it changes, you have no confidence in the people putting said plan together.
I mean if you realize your plan is flawed, you change it. I have no problem with that. Recoup some draft picks? You bet. They never should have traded so many away in the first place. But if you're just going to trade them all away again at the first inkling of success, then yeah why bother.