Quote:
Originally Posted by fleury
It’s not black and white. He’s done some really good things but his deals involving high picks has been atrocious IMO. His flavour of the month deals like overpaying for Hamonic, speaks to more of an ego and doing whatever it takes to ensure he wins. Normally I wouldn’t have a problem with a desire to outdo someone but when he overpaid for some mediocre players, it killed the possibility of sustainability. On one hand I’ve been happy with his drafting but again, his inability to get high end talent, with handcuffing deals, very challenging. If they keep him I hope he’s learned from his problems.
|
At the time of his acquisition, Hamonic was very sought after. He was considered to be a physical young shut down d-man with some offensive talent. On top of that the 2018 draft was not good. Hughes, Tkachuk, Dahlin, and Svechnikov look like the only true talents.
Bringing in a top 4 d-man after the Flames made it to the playoffs, but got defeated due to a lack of defensive depth/toughness is not what has put the Flames in their current situation.