OMG67
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Granted, but the timing of many of those goals has been awful. Back a bit,Ottawa was up 4-2 late and he let in a softy. That young defence started panicking and then it was 4-4 very quickly. We needed that veteran goalie to shut it down and that is just not his forte. Any goalie looks better with a strong defence out front, but that has to be considered when looking for positional players.
I would argue the opposite. If they knew they were going to roll with a young defense, they really needed to spend on a goalie, or abandon the idea of a young defense and acquire at least one OA that would have played not he top pairing 30 minutes a night to help that situation out. It may have stunted some development of one of the D-Men but it would have had a positive affect on the overall development of the team as a whole.
This is why I question this management team. They have placed the development of the young defense ahead of the development of the entire team. It was stupid, stupid, stupid at the time to draft those three kids and then push their development. It has led to two straight 7th place conference finishes (maybe 8th this year). They had an opportunity to make an adjustment and again chose not to.
We may see next year that this strategy turns out to be a successful one. But, I fear they are unwilling to make the other corresponding moves in the offseason to bring that to fruition. I think they will enter next year to “see what they have got.”