[saillias]

This is probably the longest conversation anyone has ever had on this board about the Sens, but anyway, someone made a point that their weakness is "not bottoming out and getting a true elite talent" which is truly missing the problem so clearly. They remind me of the Flames in the Treliving era, early on. That team had so much talent and made some nice acquisitions of players like Hamilton.

Bad coaching hires and never getting a real goaltender made that group miss the playoffs half the time and didn't really correct course until half these guys were breaking down or had one foot out the door already. It's very tough to get everything right at once. You can get all the talent but you also need a good coach and a good goalie. If you look at the names on the Sens roster it doesn't make sense they're so bad. But DJ Smith sucks and their goaltending sucks.

New Jersey too. These teams are wasting years of proper building and drafting with bad coaches and bad goalies