It says a lot about MB, Weal was on his 3rd NHL team in one season, goes on a hot streak with us in 16 games so MB gives him 2.8M over 2 years. Like what in the actual f*** do he ever do in his career to deserve that much money. I know it's not a big deal since over 1M didn't count against the cap this year but this year was Weal, last year Peca. You have Alzner getting almost 4M to sit on his couch.
What bothers me most is where is Molson in all of this, seeing KK in the press box, Galchenyuk was almost out of the NHL this time last year, Mete playing well on the Sens and rumored to be getting a contract from them, Sergachev only 6 players taken from the '16 draft have more pts then him, all forwards. 3 head coaches fired under MB in the last what 3-4 years. How many mistakes does he have to make before Molson does something about it?
And as you said, the Weal blunder only cost us 300k against the cap, because about 1.1M comes off when he's sent down. But the Byron "speed and character", who cares about skill and size, blunder is another one that is still costing us on the cap.
First MB goes with "character, who cares about skill", and totally wrecks the team with the Alzner signing and letting Radulov and Markov walk, etc...
Then, the next year he goes with"speed and character" with weal, cousins, peca, byron, domi, etc... we just miss the playoffs when we have no injuries, but crash the next year when we do.
So then we come to this year. MB decides we need to get bigger, so he builds a big defense - with no skill.
He still hasn't realized the importance of skill and talent, after all this time. I have no idea how Goeff doesn't see that as precluding any kind of meaningful success, to answer your question.
