The Blues front office, regardless what they say, has no interest in winning it all. They seem to be clinging on to the belief that they can draft all their solutions and ELC them on the cheap or acquire players for cheap that will take the place of top line talent. It is an easier road to train a D Corps than a talented, dynamic Offense, which is why the Blues have more of one than the other. They need to pay for the pieces they're missing and hopefully they can acquire them. Doug Armstrong is good only for a team that rebuilds, nothing more, nothing less. Mike Yeo is the most useless coach this side of useless. There is no such thing as a Year 3 Retool, yet here we are. The front office has proven that they are incapable of solving problems detrimental to the team in a timely fashion. Drafting a solution can take years and when you have a core, you build on it ASAP and make the years count. It's ridiculous beyond words that the Blues spend to the Cap and are where they are at now. With the money spent and the players they have drafted, there is still a large hole at C, even when Stastny was here. The team still suffers from horrible lack of Offense and now has a PP unit that is beyond useless.
Every point you have made is spot-on. The fanbase continues to allow for a next year when that nonsense should have stopped a long, long time ago. The front office is allowed to continue this nonsense and the team is getting worse. I am about done with the level of blatant stupidity that the team is handing down to the players, yet expecting them to go out there and give it their all 82 games a year while the Front Office has given up on the team by the TDL, like they did this year. They threw in the towel and didn't even try to help better the team's chances. Whatever they said they did, I flat out don't believe them. I don't see the desire to win in them and I don't see the front office giving them the tools to compete. I've lived long enough to see this team for a good period of time and I'm done with the half-heart, half attempt, not-good enough, mismanaged mess that has become this Franchise's identity. The success of many teams stem from this team's failure and I'm tired of being represented by that.
If nothing happens in this offseason, I'm done with this team. Stillman says he's such a fan, I want to see him prove it and I'm sorry, I'm not seeing it, nor do I think we will see it.