EichHart
Registered User
Saw this post on facebook, it's been talked about a lot but just look at this. Murray was the worse thing to ever happen to this franchise.
When your burn assets and $ like a drunken sailor, draft poorly and have very little to show for it youre on the road to disaster, which is where Murray's 'accelerated' rebuild has left us.
Good rebuilds are almost always done primarily through the draft, whereas ours focused primarily on burning picks/prospects for established/veteran players that have largely underwhelmed. When you have as many holes as we did post-tank and have as many misses as TM did both in the draft and in trades it doesn't take a genius to figure out what went wrong.
This is what we have to show for it going forward on some of TM's finest work...
Pysyk for Kulikov - Nothing (did swap 2 picks for 1 to move up)
TWO 3rds for Disco/Vesey - Nothing
2015 1st for Lehner & Salary dump - Shaky starter that could well be gone next year for nothing
2015 1st, Myers, Stafford, Lemieux, ArmIa - DJ Blowgo liability @ $5.2M through 2020 & whatever we get for Kane at the deadline (mid-late 1st?)
2016 2nd for Gorges - Nothing since Gorges is untradeable and a liability/scratch
TWO 2nds, McNabb, Parker for Dez/Fasching - At best a 4th line player in Fasching, likely nothing.
In all that's (2) 2015 Firsts, (3) Seconds, (2) Thirds, Myers, Stafford, Armia, Lemieux, McNabb, Pysyk and Parker for whatever Kane gets us at the deadline, a shaky goalie that should be gone next year, a made of glass Dman who's brutal even when rarely healthy plus has a back-loaded contract with $5.2M cap hit through 2020 and a 4th liner at best in Fasching.
He drafted Nylander over Serg, McCavoy and Chrychrun.
The Moulson and Okposo contracts.
The list goes on and on.
What's most amazing to me is how long many defended Murray, seemingly for little more reason than liking his gruff demeanor, ridiculous mannerisms and the idea that he was the anti-Darcy. Fast forward to today and it's nearly universal dislike with a consensus of his tenure here being an outright disaster.
When your burn assets and $ like a drunken sailor, draft poorly and have very little to show for it youre on the road to disaster, which is where Murray's 'accelerated' rebuild has left us.
Good rebuilds are almost always done primarily through the draft, whereas ours focused primarily on burning picks/prospects for established/veteran players that have largely underwhelmed. When you have as many holes as we did post-tank and have as many misses as TM did both in the draft and in trades it doesn't take a genius to figure out what went wrong.
This is what we have to show for it going forward on some of TM's finest work...
Pysyk for Kulikov - Nothing (did swap 2 picks for 1 to move up)
TWO 3rds for Disco/Vesey - Nothing
2015 1st for Lehner & Salary dump - Shaky starter that could well be gone next year for nothing
2015 1st, Myers, Stafford, Lemieux, ArmIa - DJ Blowgo liability @ $5.2M through 2020 & whatever we get for Kane at the deadline (mid-late 1st?)
2016 2nd for Gorges - Nothing since Gorges is untradeable and a liability/scratch
TWO 2nds, McNabb, Parker for Dez/Fasching - At best a 4th line player in Fasching, likely nothing.
In all that's (2) 2015 Firsts, (3) Seconds, (2) Thirds, Myers, Stafford, Armia, Lemieux, McNabb, Pysyk and Parker for whatever Kane gets us at the deadline, a shaky goalie that should be gone next year, a made of glass Dman who's brutal even when rarely healthy plus has a back-loaded contract with $5.2M cap hit through 2020 and a 4th liner at best in Fasching.
He drafted Nylander over Serg, McCavoy and Chrychrun.
The Moulson and Okposo contracts.
The list goes on and on.
What's most amazing to me is how long many defended Murray, seemingly for little more reason than liking his gruff demeanor, ridiculous mannerisms and the idea that he was the anti-Darcy. Fast forward to today and it's nearly universal dislike with a consensus of his tenure here being an outright disaster.
