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Originally Posted by Roof-Daddy
Yeah BT's cap management and trades are spectacular.
His FA signings have been hit and miss, but the first few were just to fill out a rebuilding roster and get to the cap floor (Hiller, Raymond, etc).
Brouwer has been his only really bad miss in UFA so far.
Drafting it's too early to tell, but there are loads of promising prospects in the system.
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I would argue that Raymond's was a miss too. Any time a GM is forced to buyout a player, that is a mistake made. Either he got Raymond wrong on the level of play and the fit, or he got the rest of the team wrong in their ability and cap requirements.
However, I agree with you in that his FA signings are very overblown. Most of them contributed to the team.
I measure it by 'costly mistakes' - mistakes that hurt the team in some way. So far, I count two - Gulutzan (a costly mistake costing the Flames 2 years) and waiving Byron (smaller cost, but losing on an extremely versatile player that was good on the ice and in the room was still costly).
Everything else was 'meh' to me, including Brouwer. I can't say he is hurting this team - Gulutzan overplaying him hurt the team I would say, but I think he is a positive contributor on the 4th line that is massively overpaid. Will be interesting to see if a perennial 20 goal scorer has indeed declined to this level, or if the Gulutzan system was kryptonite for his career. I think both are probably involved here.
Other than that, I don't really mind all his other moves. Bollig was a miss that cost the Flames, but those types of moves are almost expected at times, especially with a young roster full of undersized players. I thought he was 100% on the money with Engelland, and he got great value out of Russell and Glencross as well, so it all balances out that way.