Yeah, but of those players, only De Haan was really making a significant, positive impact.
I'd argue we shouldn't have spent the cap or the assets on the likes of Smith, Shaw and Seabrook (obviously).
So it was bad management, and bad luck on top of it.
Not necessarily.
We only saw 26 games of Shaw. He was coming off a career year in MTL (paced for 61 points). Tough to definitively say Shaw wasn’t going to have a positive impact here.
Smith has had his ups and downs but not every bottom 6 guy can be a young player on an ELC or a Carpenter making $1m AAV. Sometimes these guys cost money and Smith has spent at least some of his time here as a Hawk being worth his contract.
I think we’re all in agreement that CdH was good here and we wish he was healthy. Seabrook is really the only one who was clearly playing well below his cap hit.
Bad management or not, I’ve been pretty dumbfounded as to why the Hawks are having ANOTHER bad season because looking at the roster going into training camp I saw a lot of talent. Some problems and holes, sure, but it seemed like Stan did a nice job of bringing in some depth to the team.
Maybe an under looked reason for that is by having ~$18.5 million in dead cap that’s nearly 23% of our cap space not being used and/or being misused through bad management.