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Originally Posted by GioforPM
The Neal signing was, to me, the biggest, and most easily avoidable mistake. You could see the reasoning behind Brouwer and Hamonic. Those players just didn’t pan out. You could also see what he was trying to do with signing Neal, and getting Lindholm and Hanifin from the Canes (plus Ryan). But anyone with google could figure out that Neal wasn’t a good bet.
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The Neal signing was obviously bad, but the mistake there is the continual reliance on expensive veteran UFA’s.
The Hamonic trade wasn’t just a player not panning out. It was a weird mistake on multiple levels, overvaluing the player, misunderstanding the teams biggest needs and undervaluing the compensation you gave up.
But in the end the mistakes don’t define this GM, it’s the sum of the parts of what he has built with the time he has been given and the relatively clean slate he had to start with. Eight years later, we should at least be able to agree on what the plan has been.
That said, I still have some hope he can get some forward depth in here and the team goes on a little run.