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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
I strongly disagree that the majority of the board felt this way. I think many were expecting a step back.
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It's pretty rational that most fans would expect a step back this year. Nearly every player overachieved last year and the team did nothing to improve this season. I'm not saying Conroy wanted this to happen, but he had to know that a repeat performance, even with decent goaltending was extremely unlikely.
The big concern for me now is whether they can continue to be bad enough to truly benefit via the draft or if they are going to hold onto players like Coleman, Kadri, Andersson for far too long until they eventually start pulling the team out of the mess somewhat and back into the mucky middle wasteland.
If staying the course too long here ends up costing us McKenna, Verhoeff or Sternberg etc. it would be an absolute travesty and set the team back years.