hockeykicker
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Only way for them to salvage the upcoming season is to get Sutter and Lombardi.
2 guys who have proven to be able to win recently, twice, Lombardi has a cutthroat reputation and those 2 wouldn't take any perceived **** from Ovechkin, would bring back fan interest vs this just being another fated season under Trotz. Team is built to their specification so they could run their systems with average off-season changes vs major teardown. Could help with retaining Williams as well.
Ya that Lombardi is really cutthroat...He sure didn't put up with Dustin Brown's contract or thankfully Marian Gaborik's either! So now on a serious note, Lombardi has strapped the Kings with no cap room and a garbage team. Horribly overrated. Sutter was the whole reason they won. Kopitar is good...But 10 million good? He had 12 goals in a full season. I can see 7 million based on his defensive abilities but you need elite stats to get paid like him. For how much you guys bash Ovechkin, the guy has been worth his contract up until now. Everyone knew the way he played would hurt the Caps in the late years of his contract. I can't believe the lack of complaining about Holtby who in my opinion was garbage in this playoffs. With him being better the Caps would be up against an average Sens team. I'd run with a cheap option and add an extra scorer.Only way for them to salvage the upcoming season is to get Sutter and Lombardi.
2 guys who have proven to be able to win recently, twice, Lombardi has a cutthroat reputation and those 2 wouldn't take any perceived **** from Ovechkin, would bring back fan interest vs this just being another fated season under Trotz. Team is built to their specification so they could run their systems with average off-season changes vs major teardown. Could help with retaining Williams as well.
Ya that Lombardi is really cutthroat...He sure didn't put up with Dustin Brown's contract or thankfully Marian Gaborik's either! So now on a serious note, Lombardi has strapped the Kings with no cap room and a garbage team. Horribly overrated. Sutter was the whole reason they won. Kopitar is good...But 10 million good? He had 12 goals in a full season. I can see 7 million based on his defensive abilities but you need elite stats to get paid like him. For how much you guys bash Ovechkin, the guy has been worth his contract up until now. Everyone knew the way he played would hurt the Caps in the late years of his contract. I can't believe the lack of complaining about Holtby who in my opinion was garbage in this playoffs. With him being better the Caps would be up against an average Sens team. I'd run with a cheap option and add an extra scorer.
Zero interest in Lombardi. The Kings' roster management had a notable decline after Hextall left, and Lombardi has quite a few notable blunders with both Los Angeles and the US national team.
Even if Lombardi were a guaranteed success I hate him as a person. The way he jettisoned Mike Richards who went through a very real personal issue and the way he defended Voynov despite being a wifebeater really irks me.
I'd rather not have him as part of the organization.
because the gm was totally the reason the caps lost
People bringing up trades that have Ovechkin in them are really out to lunch.
Every person on the roster would be traded before Alex Ovechkin. Hockey is a business and the vast majority of people that go to Caps games aren't on these boards. Ovechkin IS the Caps right now, he is good friends with Ted, he is going nowhere unless HE asks for it.
My guess he finishes his contract and heads home.
Welcome to the price of success in the real world. 2nd round is as far as goody two shoes ownership and management takes you.
There are plenty of other GMs who have had success that aren't complete ********. Hockey isn't *that* important to me to ignore these type of off-the-ice actions.
He got Orpik, he got Shattenkirk after having the opportunity to watch him fold in the playoffs for half a decade, he got Trotz, he got Eller and the whole bottom 6 that hasn't been able to produce **** for 3 straight years. But no none of this is on him.
Yeah, exactly what they need, more soft, inconsistent Europeans like Yakupov.
Yeah can't have any stupid Europeans like Malkin, Forsberg, Silfverberg or Karlsson
Good thing you took the trouble to facepalm your own post at least.
Lol what? I'm sorry but a bottom 6 of burakovsky/johansson, eller and Connolly
And Wilson, winnik and beagle should have produced. Find me a better bottom 6? Pitt with their ahl guys? Yeah ok
This is an insane argument. You're saying Yakupov is like any of those players? Get a grip.
Yeah, I'd hate for Lombardi to win 2 cups with Washington and sign a bunch of cup heroes to reward contracts afterwards. That would be horrible. Much rather not win any cups so there are no playoff heroes to sign
Once again, Ron Hextall. They won the Cups with the core he helped assemble. Hextall went to the Flyers in 2013. Right after he left is when Lombardi started doing **** like giving Dustin Brown an 8 year extension. Whatever working relationship the two of them had together worked well, but Lombardi left unchecked was a disaster.