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Originally Posted by Jason14h
They should have dealt Coleman (I am assuming there was a market ) and Anderson in the offseason to start
I actually like most of what Conroy has done - but also bringing in 24-26 year old D who are more NHL ready in trades isn’t really helping the long term success of needing to be bad .
They 3/4 committed to sucking . They needed to 100% commit .
I am not sure they will have the honest evaluation of where the team is this offseason - that we basically wasted (another) potential rebuild year
In my opinion this season is showing exactly the risk of not fully tearing it down - or at least tearing down past “be ok” level
(Disclaimer - I thought they would be a lot worse record wise so maybe Conroy and ownership / management though this was enough to get into the bottom )
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There’s a salary floor, and they were already at it.
They couldn’t trade nearly $10M of Andersson and Coleman without taking back $10M in hockey players, and those players presumably want to earn another NHL contract.
Both are incredibly simple to move at any point, and it only gets easier as the cap goes up and more teams have more space.
Their record is what it is. They’d be comfortably in the playoffs if Kuzmenko wasn’t a complete void. They’re well coached, and the 23 year old goalie looks like a star, which is about all I was hoping to confirm this season. Oh, and Zary’s legit.
The year after Johnny and Monny made the second round, they had the highest pick in franchise history, and they’d draft top-10 one more time before they finally started to figure it out.
This group doesn’t have its Johnny yet. There is zero rush here.
Remember, it takes longer to do things quickly, it’s more expensive to do them cheaply, and it’s more democratic to do them in secret.
Maybe not that last one, but definitely the first two.