This is why Maloney failed in Arizona, and I'll be honest its starting to concern me as well.
I'll leave this here, tell me this doesn't sound familiar:
https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/...selling-assets
"Having said that, Maloney doesn't foresee a long rebuild.
He wants to turn this around quickly. While the organization will get younger, it can also get more talented in the offseason as the team scours the league looking for help"
"I don't see this as being a 10-year rebuild," Maloney said. "I think we're well positioned contractually in that we can help ourselves in the offseason.
"He's always a name that comes up," Maloney said. "Keith Yandle is a very important part on our team, and he's a good player. He's been a top offensive defenseman for the last five years in the league. I'm not actually out there shopping his name around at all, but people have talked to me about it. I'd like to build that base, not subtract from it.
"We don't have enough Keith Yandles".
Rinse, repeat, fail.
This is Maloney's tenure in any sort of hockey operations role.