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Originally Posted by Major Major
Your first sentence is a syntactical nightmare. Normally I wouldn't mind, but you seem to be coming in here with some kind of special claim on the truth. You're the courageous and objective mind amid this group think swamp, yes?
But your logic is as ghastly as your ability to put words together, one thought not fitting with the next, haphazardly stacked in a wobbly toddler tower.
Oh please, tell me about the year Fitzpatrick has had... Lets go of Brunette - coach of the year candidate. Fires Ruff too late with an ineffective replacement. Coaching issue remains.
Buys high and sells low on Toffoli and then buys two replacement level goalies to replace the replacers of the previously replaced. Goalie issue - unsolved.
Sewers the season of the league's lotto darlings with an imminently solvable problem hanging over his head for months. Solvable problem - still unsolved.
He had an awful year. There's really no argument to the contrary.
Conroy isn't going to be making any lists. His moves were measured, appropriate, solid. He extracted the most value of any gm selling rentals. He followed through on his promise to be an asset manager. Good. We couldn't have hoped for more.
Now beat it, child!
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Selling rentals is easy. You wait, then you sell to the team with the highest offer. Conroy did nothing impressive (in fact he first tried to offer them all massive contracts. A completely different tune would be being sung if Elias Lindholm accepted the 72 million dollar offer from Conroy).
Very easy to sell the best dman and center on the market.
Conroy pissed away the peak of markstrom's value.
Yegor had no place in jersey. He would have had a 2nd of value if sold, and then was turned into a 2nd+3rd. But good on him for shooting 19% (surely we've never before seen a player shoot a massive career high then revert back to their normal numbers, with no other underlyings suggesting any difference).
Brunette was a mistake. Name 1 GM who would have actually fired a Jack Adams finalist in the offseason?
The year was decimated by injuries. 3 rookie dman in the lineup. This was not, and never has been, the year to go all in.
Futures were kept, didn't massively overpay for a goalie, and has us set up for the future.