I know. I should have included the sarcasm emoji. I meant if he won a cup the next criticism would be why hasn't he won 3.I meant here. It should go without saying Shero already has built cup teams.
Or make the conference finals in his year after the franchise never made the playoffs in their history?
Or make the conference finals 3 times, make the playoffs 7 of his first 8 years and win a cup after the franchise was chased from two cities and never had an above 500 record in their history.
The Lou vs. Shero rhetoric is probably the most tiring thing to read. I'd rather us go back and forth about what 4th liners should be playing for 20 pages...
Lol....
2015 draft was Shero's? Is that a joke?
He was in the job for 60 freaking days.
Yeah a draft takes a few days to prepare for... just like a Yahoo fantasy draft. lol .
I actually agree. It's a silly argument. But there is a constant attempt to denigrate Lou to elevate Shero and I don't understand it at all.The Lou vs. Shero rhetoric is probably the most tiring thing to read. I'd rather us go back and forth about what 4th liners should be playing for 20 pages...
Lol....
2015 draft was Shero's? Is that a joke?
He was in the job for 60 freaking days.
Yeah a draft takes a few days to prepare for... just like a Yahoo fantasy draft. lol .
Wait a minute, before you blamed Shero for parts of 2015 you didn't like. MacKenzie Blackwood -G- (42nd Overall 2015)Lol....
2015 draft was Shero's? Is that a joke?
He was in the job for 60 freaking days.
Yeah a draft takes a few days to prepare for... just like a Yahoo fantasy draft. lol .
There is no other person you can look at for those events other than Shero.
I did blame Conte. But I blame Shero more.So I guess you'll blame Conte the next time you rip the Blackwood pick.
It would be a much more complete work if the Defense was addressed at all, even a tiny bit. And that is what my orginal point was. The defense has been neglected.The team is clearly still a work in progress right now. I think Shero deserves more time to continue building the team based on what he has done so far.
No one is taking away Lou's legacy and importance to this franchise. Lou is the greatest thing that has ever happened to it and he was the Devils for decades. That doesn't mean he's immune to criticism for how things went at the end. I'm not going to sit here and pretend like everything was amazing when the team missed the playoffs in 4 of his last 5 seasons here and he left the team lacking in top end talent with a roster in shambles.
Nobody that follows Lou is ever going to get credit or even the benefit of the doubt with the older segment of the fanbase. Although with the younger segment of the fanbase anyone was gonna be better than Lou so I guess it's close to even out.
So I guess you'll blame Conte the next time you rip the Blackwood pick.
It would be a much more complete work if the Defense was addressed at all, even a tiny bit. And that is what my orginal point was. The defense has been neglected.
Not sure how this is even debatable but for some reason it turned into Lou sucks so Shero had to neglect the defense. Which is just whacky in my opinion.
Yup.Lou left the team in shambles. We had no top prospects. We were the oldest and slowest team in the league by a country mile.
We were dead in the water.
This is so ****ing stupid. The team has been playing some good hockey. Winning games, and scoring goals, and we are stuck arguing about the past.
I did blame Conte. But I blame Shero more.
The pick was two parts if you remember. We traded down first... Conte can't do that.
We turned a #36 overall into #42 and picked a goalie in a deep draft. No matter how Blackwood turns out, that was a bad move.