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Maacoshark:
GMs gamble sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn't. Our GM gambled with the Shattenkirk deal but it didnt work. Everything he did after that was panicking, not gambling.
I'm not happy with the direction this team is going. It looked like the team was headed in the right direction. Finally developing some young players. It was obvious we needed some help in back end. And we can't just blame the rookies. Our veterans have been just as bad defensively. We dont have a shutdown dman on this team. I dont see the 2 new additions helping. If this is the direction we are going we may as well scrap whatever crappy system we are using and go with a run and gun system. This team us so bad defensively right now we need 5 goals to give us a chance.
justwincaps:
--- Quote from: Maacoshark on Saturday February 24, 2018, 06:38:44 PM Eastern --- GMs gamble sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn't. Our GM gambled with the Shattenkirk deal but it didnt work. Everything he did after that was panicking, not gambling.
I'm not happy with the direction this team is going. It looked like the team was headed in the right direction. Finally developing some young players. It was obvious we needed some help in back end. And we can't just blame the rookies. Our veterans have been just as bad defensively. We dont have a shutdown dman on this team. I dont see the 2 new additions helping. If this is the direction we are going we may as well scrap whatever crappy system we are using and go with a run and gun system. This team us so bad defensively right now we need 5 goals to give us a chance.
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Yep - it’s hard to see how two, at best, bottom pairing defensemen who couldn’t routinely crack the lineup on two teams with poor defenses are going to help. Then again, how sad is it that our GM thinks two guys who couldn’t start for Montreal of Chicago are good enough to help us?
DC_1908:
--- Quote from: justwincaps on Saturday February 24, 2018, 06:54:30 PM Eastern ---
Yep - it’s hard to see how two, at best, bottom pairing defensemen who couldn’t routinely crack the lineup on two teams with poor defenses are going to help. Then again, how sad is it that our GM thinks two guys who couldn’t start for Montreal of Chicago are good enough to help us?
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A big part is the fad of loading up offensive Dmen was figured out by the rest of the league last year, which is why these guys didn’t crack the line up.
Hell even without Weber, I’d take Benn, Perry, and Alzner from Montreal over of any of D. . .This is a team debating trading their captain and your telling me we couldn’t get one of those guys?
Same two reasons, GMBetaMales ability and the front offices nihilistic view that they “know hockey”, “know how to win”, and won’t admit mistakes and make sacrifices to fix them.
Or as I said before, maybe priority is just 700 and if there’s no cup, “at least we had a chance”
DC_1908:
Nash to Boston
Jeessshhhh. . . . .
Maacoshark:
--- Quote from: DC_1908 on Sunday February 25, 2018, 10:11:04 AM Eastern ---Nash to Boston
Jeessshhhh. . . . .
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I dont care about Nash. Big time playoff underachiever. I'm still hoping we pick up a real dman. We can go with what we have upfront. Although I wouldn't have a problem with adding va power forward.
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