But where are we now? Schmidt gone,
This was bad.
Oshie signed for 8, Orpik still on the roster.
I mean the first you can't call bad till a few years from now. You're projecting a possible scenario and calling it fact. The second, while bad has less to do with GMBM and more to do with Trotz. While the 5 million would still be annoying, GMBM isn't the guy who's trotting 44's decaying body out their night after night and has in fact gone out of his way to give Trotz options with which to replace him with.
The two best defenders this year? Orlov and Carlson, both McPhee draft picks.
Well this is cherry picking at it's finest. Orlov did almost nothing until Trotz came here, and I love Dmitry. Carlson is also having a career year but every year he's been here it's been a consensus that Niskanen has been our best defender. He got hurt this year and has been off and suddenly that was an awful signing?
The two best forwards? Wilson and Ovechkin.
Wilson has taken a giant upswing, but almost all of his development has been while Trotz and GMBM have been at the helm. You also seem to ignore Vrana who's been outstanding (and a GMBM pick).
You're really gonna tout the Generational Talent as some giant win for GMGM, or knock on GMBM?
The talent McClellan has brought in has already peaked (Niskanen, Oshie), is a current or future salary albatross (Orpik, Oshie), is TBD (draft picks), is meh (Connolly, DSP, Chiasson etc) or is no longer with the team (Williams).
So you're making assumptions off two guys who were injured, making a projection and stating it was fact with Oshie, calling a conract with one more year an albatross, assuming his draft picks are gonna be awful, knocking depth players (who're definitly better then what we've trotted out before under GMGM's trash dives), and then knocking him because he didn't wanna sign the 36 year old to a 12 million dollar deal?
The best player rn who’s a McClellan guy is Eller. A good guy and solid player but that’s it. I’m hoping Oshie and Niskanen bounce back but over the last year I think the cracks have started to form in Brian’s luster. The next offseason will be crucial. If McClellan aces it I’ll gladly change my tune. After taking a look at the entire package now on display, I’m gonna go out on a limb and say it’s probably not gonna turn out particularly well.
No, you're making assumptions based on slanted observations and going even further to state those assumptions as fact. The
only thing one can knock GMBM on, without reproach, was his handling of the Expansion Draft. Literally every other move has been defensable, if not a
good move. GMBM has been a good GM in his time here. Every time we've had a whole or an issue he's done whatever he can to address it, something we've been calling for for
years and suddenly he's awful? Get out of here with that nonesense.
Oh, and you also seem to ignore that GMBM has
been here when guys like Wilson, Orlov, and Carlson were drafted. Apparently he doesn't get any kudos for that.