RealityHurts
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- Feb 24, 2020
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That's really good to know. My intention was never to insult you guys.Right now the Wings have 18M in cap space without Bertuzzi and Mantha signed. Bertuzzi at 5M and Mantha at 7M. Those seem pretty reasonable if they were to sign long term deals. Guess where that leaves us for 2020? At about 6-7M in cap space. They could possibly add another 6 if they wanted to fill up Zetterberg's LTIR amount. but frankly, that's not free cap space and shouldn't be treated as such.
They did everything they could within reason. Would I like to see them go out and sign a guy like Dadonov who's pretty good? Sure. I'd also like them to think beyond one year with their cap planning and roster construction. Could we take a guy like Boychuk and have a slightly better D? Could we have dealt basically nothing and gotten Nate Schmidt back? Sure. But that's us giving up flexibility because some random dude doesn't think we are doing enough to "try to win".
Focus on teams like Buffalo who deal away goalies (multiple) in a season because they want the top pick. That have their entire fanbase en masse IN ARENA spend months booing the good things their team does and cheering when they lose. What the Wings are doing isn't tanking. You don't have to like it, but Yzerman is bringing in guys who are NHL caliber players to replace guys who were on the roster before he got here that weren't.
The way I see it, last year's performance is unacceptable to any fan base (pace for 47). In most given year, worst teams get around 58-64 ish (I believe Buffalo had 54 on year it was criticized by people to be tanking for McDavid)? I could be wrong, but it shouldn't be far off
I earnestly feel last year was difficult to swallow.