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Originally Posted by jonkaupp
Generally a fan of all his RFA contracts, save the Hanifin one which I think is still very much to be determined. Also not a fan of the Tkachuk deal but his hands were tied by the salary cap.... and uh I think we know whose to blame for that. Also not going to give him much of any credit for the playoff round win. Was his first year and his finger prints were hardly on that team, and lets be honest a lot of that was a fluke. Almost every metric said we shouldn’t be there and the follow up to that year kinda proved that. If anything that year set us back long term because I think it is what gave him the false confidence in this team that led to so many of the impatient ‘win now’ trades. Also don’t love comparing to previous regimes, I prefer to compare to his contemporaries. What I see is a team that had good pieces to build around but due to impatience it is now faced with a major cap problem with a pretty poor prospect base due to trading away too many futures, much like the Sutter years. I actually think the first 5 years of Sutter were much better than our first 5 with Brad now that I look at it, we at least made the playoffs every year. Guess we’ll see what the next few bring.
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I certainly agree there have been mistakes, and we agree on many of them.
But if I own a team I look at the uncertainty of the replacement and whether that person is bound to do a better job or not. You want him gone, and that's fine, you are welcome to that opinion.
But when I look at his trades, his RFA signings, and the jump in draft success I see a guy that has done more right then wrong. Add in the process driven thinking angle from the guy and I'd be banking that he is more likely than others to learn from the mistakes he's made.
But as you say it's a results business, and everyone gets to make that call for themselves..