I hope this season gets them to pump the f***ing brakes on this all out to win managerial and coaching strategy. We still have to push to try to pull a cup run out of our very limited window with this core of players but no more tinkering. Get the roster under the cap, clean out the coaching staff and do proper diligence in hiring a new staff that can get results out of this core, reinvest in player development to salvage the shallow prospect pool we still have and position the team for the inevitable retool we're going to have to go through.
After years of watching the Ducks make minor tweaks to their roster and slowly descend into lottery team territory, I was happy to support a team with the balls to go out there and make impact moves to try to win. But they've gone too far. We've depleted our prospect pipeline, we've spent beyond the cap in contracts. We've burned bridges with former players and completely and entirely de-emphasized player development all while being far too loyal to a coaching staff with a fundamentally broken system. We've reaped what we sowed big time. In a way I'm almost glad injuries f***ed our season. The past two games have showed the failings of DeBoer and his staff as well as anything could. Team is in do or die and they play like they haven't practiced in ages. The only brutal part of all this is Spott showed his incompetence as a powerplay coach from the beginning and he still has a job. So I'm willing to bet DeBoer gets another season to try to right the ship.
