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Originally Posted by Red
It's on him that he built a team full of soft and undersized players. He took the "new NHL is fast and skilled size be damned" too literally and too early. 2-12 in the last playoff 3 series and looked terrible in the process.
Heard on the Fan that Tre loves big players. Was shocked to hear that because he keeps bringing small guys like Foo, Czarnik, Mangi, Dube, Ryan etc. With Johnny on the team there is no room for more small forwards.
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Every team would prefer to have big, fast, physical, strong, skilled players over small, soft, skilled players. That's why they are hard to get.
He's given the scouts the freedom to take the best player available. We've made some astute picks in terms of undersized forwards. Telling the scouts to only draft big, strong guys and you'll get more busts like Burke/Sutter did. I'd rather they hit on guys like Gaudreau and Dube rather than take big busts.
It made no sense to deal Gaudreau until now. He's obviously been trying to add size, grit and physicality (tried to get Reeves, Neal for Lucic, Kadri had some bite). He traded the butter soft Hamilton for a gritty complete forward in Lindholm.
He's trying. I know trying isn't enough for some of you, you just wanna rage because you're frustrated the team isn't further along.
This summer will be a big one. He'll have the opportunity to deal Gaudreau and reshape the team identity a bit. But you'll have to wait until the offseason to see any franchise altering trades.