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DC_1908:
--- Quote from: KitFisto on Sunday July 29, 2018, 05:23:01 PM Eastern ---GMGM is a better GM?? LOL!!!! I'm sorry DC, but you jumped the shark with that one. McPhee hasn't won squat and BM had to take some of GM's pieces and FINALLY get them over the top with right augmentations. GM is NOT a better general manager.
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Absolutely, and I said that all last year and year before.
Without the helicoptering of Ted, Dickless, and the Monumental Board, he took a team of throw aways to record setting season a Cup final to play a team composed of 13 of his draft picks.
But to this conversation, no way GMGM would overpay all these contracts like GMBetaMale did, (unless ordered to by Monumental Entertianment) as GMGM is by far a better negotiator and does not bend over to agents.
But hey, most fans are still on the Cup high, but in a couple years when the players he signed are loafing around in the regular season, and post season if there is one, abecause they’re making bank for years to come, the cap is in such a place we cant resign Hotly even if we over pay him, which is provided he will stay after our D only gets worse and worse, . . just the zealots will say “we won a Cuo, once, thats ALL that matters”, and others will say things like “Last Post I’m Done” because it will be a disaster
4 Caps:
DC you can bad mouth BMac all you want but the bottom line is that he is a winner. He won a Stanley Cup as a player and now as a GM. He knows what it takes to be a winner and I am happy he is the Caps GM, he is not afraid to make tough decisions.
Mickstix:
DC gonna be pissed off about winning that Cup, one way or another!!! :rofl: :rofl: Fight the good fight brother!! :raspberry:
Rey Capalpatine:
--- Quote from: 4 Caps on Friday July 27, 2018, 09:19:55 PM Eastern ---Caps sign Wilson, six years 31 million. That is about what people were speculating the contract would be between 4.5 and 5.5 million per year. I think it is a good deal for both sides, Wilson gets long term security and Caps get a reasonabl cap hit although some people may think it is a little high.
That pretty much takes care of business that needed to be done in the off season. Can’t wait for start of training camp.
Reading more, the contract is for 31.02 million with an average of 5.17 per year.
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I'm amped they re-signed Wilson! I cannot wait for the season to start.
DC_1908:
--- Quote from: 4 Caps on Monday July 30, 2018, 10:46:28 AM Eastern ---DC you can bad mouth BMac all you want but the bottom line is that he is a winner. He won a Stanley Cup as a player and now as a GM. He knows what it takes to be a winner and I am happy he is the Caps GM, he is not afraid to make tough decisions.
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You praise and hero-worship all you want, using the layman Aristotelian logic of "he won and Cup therefore he's a winner and he's great", but know that is short sighted and devoid of analysis, proper data collection, and basic blind faith.
I will be continue to be objective and pragmatic looking (in the case of GMBetaMAles role), at how we won, who performed over or under expectations, the quality and cap situation of the roster and cap situation (among other things).
One of the simple conclusions is for a team to win in what was called a "rebuild/throw away year", (remember no one had high expectations), with a cap pushing the brink due to over paying Russia and the other players, trades decimating the draft and moving good players to cut cap space and only getting 3rd rounders for them,. . .is not only did the GM had little to do with the win, but the win was IN SPITE of the GM and the front office.
Its not hating, its being objective and unbiased.
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