I don't hate Brad, and I don't love Brad. He's made some good moves, he's made some bad moves. For a first time GM he's been solid, and he's a huge improvement over Feaster and the majority of the Sutter run. But I do think it's time just for a change. There's obviously ownership expectations that play a role. But he's had enough time. And given his contract is expiring, it's an easy time to just move on. We don't have to fire him, we just part ways.
I don't have huge hopes for the next GM. It's likely either gonna be another recycled, not perfect GM like Murray, or it's going to be Conroy promoted (which is my guess) who studied under Brad, so will either be similar, or will be more in line with Sutter who he played for.
Whatever happens, 2023-2024 is gonna be a crapshoot anyway. They will likely run it back hoping the bad luck of posts and poor goaltending corrects itself, which if we're being honest, if we had average goaltending and not the worst hitting post luck I've literally ever seen, we'd be comfortably in a playoff spot. But you know Edwards isn't gonna sign off on a full blow it up, so we won't trade our pending UFAs until the deadline if we do.
Also we are capped out at least next season, until the cap jumps again, so the next season is mostly going to be the new GM getting used to the job, because they won't be able to do much to change the roster for next season, it's essentially locked already. Just hope goaltending is better and we get Kylington back and hope it goes better basically.
So I do think we should move on from Tre, but I'm also not expecting much to change going into next season regardless