I just wish our management would pick a lane. It seems like a pattern with every UFA. They seem to wait for the player to decide what he wants and go from there. The Conroy regime is open to every player either staying or leaving, and will calibrate the rest of their plan on that. Does your own plan and direction factor in at all maybe?! I understand bluffing but I do not think Conroy is constantly bluffing about this. They seem so passive about their direction.
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I just wish our management would pick a lane. It seems like a pattern with every UFA. They seem to wait for the player to decide what he wants and go from there. The Conroy regime is open to every player either staying or leaving, and will calibrate the rest of their plan on that. Does your own plan and direction factor in at all maybe?! I understand bluffing but I do not think Conroy is constantly bluffing about this. They seem so passive about their direction.
I dunno, seems the most clear plan I've seen in a while from this team. Look at all the vets traded and gone the last couple of years. Now Mantha and Rooney. Rasmus soon as well, most likely. Bringing in players in their mid 20's, draft picks, letting young guys play.
They will keep some vets, so people should get used to it. And the team really should have been a lot worse (with a great draft pick tomorrow), but overachieved. They tried to be bad but just couldn't do it.
Looking to the future while being competitive today, keep promoting younger players, hopefully have more drafts like 2024. Seems like a pretty clear plan.
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It is also not an indictment to explore if they can get valuable players on value contracts. That does not mean that they cannot trade them later. If the goal is to increase the asset base of the franchise, then having good players on value contracts can be part of the strategy.
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I dunno, seems the most clear plan I've seen in a while from this team. Look at all the vets traded and gone the last couple of years. Now Mantha and Rooney. Rasmus soon as well, most likely. Bringing in players in their mid 20's, draft picks, letting young guys play.
They will keep some vets, so people should get used to it. And the team really should have been a lot worse (with a great draft pick tomorrow), but overachieved. They tried to be bad but just couldn't do it.
Looking to the future while being competitive today, keep promoting younger players, hopefully have more drafts like 2024. Seems like a pretty clear plan.
Ya, the plan has been clear from day one and he has enough proof points now that almost everyone should recognize the plan. It might not be the plan that everyone wants but he has a plan.
The only thing I would add to your summary is the CC seems content on offering a player a contract that works for him. If what some of our insiders said is correct he offered Rasmus something around 6.75 million. For a dman that is going to be good for the next 5 years or more that is a pretty good cap hit. In 3 years when the cap is projected to be 113.5 million that would be 5.95% of the cap. When Rasmus signed his last contract it was worth 5.58% of the cap, not much of a difference.
Sounds like they are far apart on the money so CC is going to likely trade him. But if a top 75 dman in the league would have been willing to sign for 5.95% of the cap it would be a strange decision to not sign him. Guys like Bouchard and Dobson are trying to get 9.7% of the value of a 113.5 million dollar cap.
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CC is such a great communicator. I really hope he gets this team into a contention window.
I still find this change jarring. I love it though- Tre was a master of answering questions without actually divulging anything; Sutter was often (but not always) tight-lipped, or used the pressers to coach. Conroy and Huska just seem to give direct, honest answers. It’s so refreshing.
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I still find this change jarring. I love it though- Tre was a master of answering questions without actually divulging anything; Sutter was often (but not always) tight-lipped, or used the pressers to coach. Conroy and Huska just seem to give direct, honest answers. It’s so refreshing.
Tre is a blah blah bull#### machine
Talks without saying much and move by move slowly ruins the team. It’s off putting and he failed to keep some real key pieces here
Glad he’s in Toronto
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