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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
As has been the case, the challenge BT had was being handed a very poor asset base overall. One of the worst in the league.
As I posted a while back:
He had:
- A weak prospect base (if I'm looking at the right year it boasted the likes of Emile Poirier, Sven kicking around, Markus Granlund, Bill Arnold, Morgan Klimchuk, Corban Knight...they then added Sam, Mason McDonald, Hunter Smith, Brandon Hickey - in the 2014 draft.) Hardly a stellar group
- No #1 goalie. The previous year had Ramo, Ortio, MacDonald and Berra. Yuck. You can say you shouldn't overpay for a #1 when re-building but you need one either way.
- A leading scorer the previous year that had 54 points in 75 games.
- A top goal scorer the previous year with 26 goals in 63 games, who walked as a UFA.
Again he had some young talent coming for sure. But the most important thing is the assets to work with. He had
- One of the worst prospect bases
- A very poor roster
But some young talent coming and some cap space.
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What do you expect he would have? it was supposed to be the beginning stages of a rebuild.
- He had some premium talent on the roster to either build on or trade away.
- He had plenty of good prospects, many didn't pan out which isn't unusual. He could have chosen to keep them or trade them.
- He had all of his draft picks and the ability to add more by dealing veterans, which in some cases he did.
- He had tons of cap space, no anchor contracts.