new chant at games should be 'spend some money'
Yes.
You can fire Murray (or "retire" given the situation) for betting on Cowen and Wiercioch and watching them fail. That's fine. I would have been in the keep Murray camp until this year. He had another chance to fix a bad defence last summer and didn't. I'm ok with letting him go for making some bad choices.
Nonetheless, a new GM isn't bringing this team to contender status with the current budget. Barring a miracle. It's been mentioned but our bad contracts are not that bad vs. the rest of the league. Some of the the players people complain about here are not even that overpaid at all. The Sens just have no room for mistakes when it comes to money.
Bottom line is if the franchise is serious about competing, it needs to compete with the wallet too.
My thinking is that why is the most obvious solution to making a mediocre team better off the table? Why is the discussion about making more Turris type rip off deals or drafting a new Karlsson every year to improve the team. We have cap room to add a good player or two. They have an option they aren't exploring - spend more money. We have the cap space.
It's like we're starving and worried about growing crops or finding a second job to feed ourselves when there's a steak sitting right in front of us.
Melnyk needs to spend or get out.