Agreed. Even avoiding re signing McDavid First could have made Drai accept a lower dollar figure as he wouldn’t be compared to McDavid.
Chia seems to be an awful evaluator of talent, and seems to think he’s smarter than the rest of the league going into this season the way he did.
Either way, I’m over this clown. He hasn’t done anything for us that literally anyone with a half a brain couldn’t have done, except maybe maroon.
Talbot was a favour from slats, Drai was already here, McDavid was a no brainer, he signed McDavid and Drai to whatever they wanted, etc.
Going into last off-season I was so excited, knowing we almost made the conference finals and just needed to fill a few holes, and had full faith in chia. Well now it’s time to be showing the nhl that we’re a real cup contender with those holes filled, but instead we managed to get a lot worse.
Anyone could have seen scoring and D being an issue this coming season, which means either chia was aware and did nothing, or wasn’t aware at all, which would make him an awful gm either way.