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Originally Posted by AC
Yup, I don't think Hall solves this team's problems... But he might be the only top UFA that would sign with Calgary in recent history or anytime in the future for that matter.
Add to that Gaudreau's likely departure as another #1LW and it's a slam dunk asset management wise.
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We desperately need to start making smart moves from an asset perspective. This would be such a slam dunk.
I’m generally pretty bummed though. The team is (potentially) finished on Thursday and they’re walking off into the off-season with no momentum. The core players fell apart at the most crucial part of the year yet again - so while we may have some nice young support pieces in play, the top-end of this roster both up-front and on the back-end...and in net, is in complete disarray.
I’ve been in camp Monahan forever, and still like the player - but this series hammers it home. He’s not good enough to be a #1 centre, nor do he and Backlund deliver enough to be thought of as a formidable 1A/1B duo. We’re (likely) losing Brodie to free agency (...goodbye asset) right alongside Hamonic (...so long asset), and Giordano’s play in the 19/20 season and these playoffs really tell the tale of Father Time catching up with the guy. Rittich has yet again been slapped as “not the guy”, and his play faltered to such a degree that he’s not much more than a 1B guy where the 1A needs to be elite if we’re going to have any true success.
I think this year has shown that:
- we don’t have a #1 centre that we can win with
- our best offensive forward is nothing more than a power play specialist and an absolute liability at even strength
- we don’t have a #1 defenceman
- we are (potentially) losing our #2 defenceman for nothing
- we don’t have a #1 goalie going forward (and I personally don’t think a Talbot/Rittich tandem is anywhere near good enough)
- we don’t have a head coach
When you add all these issues up is it really shocking that this team fails the way it does? We can be critical of this player or that player but at the end of the day the roster just isn’t anywhere near good enough and the holes we have are pretty damn difficult to address any way but through drafting high in the 1st round. Tree has unfortunately managed this team right back to where he found us with no clear path for improvement.
This season really hammered home the fact this organization has some pretty deep issues. They’re still just marching forward with the whole “just get in and anything can happen” mantra. Sure “anything can happen”, when you’ve built your team the right way. This team’s structure is flawed and it was pretty clear that they didn’t have it this year, and instead of being proactive they shuffled some more deck chairs and spent more futures on pieces that didn’t move the needle.