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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
Specifically this stuff:
"He had a young team, young star talent, excess draft picks."
This simply isn't true. The team was aging, with only a few pre-apex players. They had only one legit prospect. They had one extra 2nd round pick in the coming draft.
So your description of what he was inheriting - doesn't seem accurate, at least from my view.
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Well you cherry picked a few.
You forgot cap room, and low expectations allowing him to trade guys for picks.
And the core of the team was young. He didn't have to do anything creative to get rid of players locked into bad long term contracts. The bad contracts were of his doing, beginning almost immediately with Mason Raymond.
It's easy to look at the prospects from 6 years ago and point out all those who didn't make it. It will be interesting to do that with the current prospects six years from now.
I feel like if things were as bad as you believe, it's even more of an indictment of his approach to trade away picks.
Nothing wrong with disagreeing. At some point though, the situation he inherited is irrelevant. Certainly doesn't have much to do with his inactivity over last two seasons.