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Originally Posted by VANFLAMESFAN
I just don’t get how that front office in the summertime thought that grabbing Mikyehev and dropping cap space there made more sense than fixing up their blue line. Even when fully healthy, their top six is suspect and it’s really troublesome when they have a couple injuries like they do now.
Nothing against Mikyehev. He will be fine I guess. But to not address blue line set this team up for failure.
They’ll get a few wins here and come back to the pack but they’re never not gonna be a playoff bubble team at best with that defence.
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I think the issue was there were no solutions to the blue line to be had in the summer. I think they tried to move Miller for something and couldn't get it. There wasn't much on the UFA market.
At the best of times there are very few deals where teams get a Weegar-like player without getting bent over for him. But when the other team knows you need it? Lol, good luck.
I agree that what the new regime has done isn't really much of anything, but I think the situation they inherited just didn't have much movement that could be done. Team is cap strapped with very few assets to move to try and improve the situation. The reality is, the team needs to move on from one of their top-9 fan favourite forwards to fix this. Hell, it may even need to be two. Miller was the obvious option, but they turned around and brought him back. Now Horvat is the obvious option. One of Garland or Boeser probably should go too. Will they? Ehh, hard to trade that kind of player. Very hard to trade them and get the value you feel they are worth back when everyone knows you're desperate.
But the only way it gets better is if you excise the tumour. The tumour, in this case, being the roster construction they inherited but are for some reason being reluctant to change.