If I thought some new guy was going to miraculously make all correct decisions and just manage the team with no regard to ownership mandates and basically listen to CP and do everything right, I guess I'd say "do it". But that's not reality.
The team isn't great, and I think BT has tried and failed on a few important trades, and I think lots of players aren't that interested in coming here.
This team looks vastly different with Zucker and/or Kadri.
To me, the two biggest failings that are currently hurting the team were just mentioned previously: James Neal and Sam Bennett.
If Bennett pans out as a #1 center this team looks super different. Even if he's only a really good winger. But he's just... not.
And the big hole on Right Wing was supposed to be James Neal, and that just super didn't work. I thought it was a good signing, it wasn't. Is it Brad's fault? Did he not do enough homework on the player? I just don't know. But it didn't work.
So the team is really really hampered by a big ugly contract (most teams are) and it's hampered by a whole whack, player after player, of mediocrity. Our best guys aren't as good as other teams' best guys, mostly, and the rest of the team is spare-part quality.
You could get by on the spare-parts if the top end guys were muscling along. But they aren't. The slotting is a mess, and the talent not star quality, really.
I think it can be fixed, but it's going to take some serious changes, not a new depth winger.
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