Not jumping off the bandwagon, but Chia completely bungled this off season. I defended the Russell contract but he completely failed to fill the holes that we had and I'm not a fan of the Eberle trade. Our wing depth is pretty terrible now. I'm off the Chia bandwagon until he proves otherwise.
Chia's job this offseason was different than seasons past. He's been doing a good job of adding players up to that point, and at some point we need to focus on the cap instead of adding. Replacing Eberle sounds easy, but we needed to move that salary, and a true replacement would cost salary. As far as I'm concerned, Yama replaced Ebs anyway.
The number one priority was signing Drai and McDavid. The Drai negotiation held up things. We also need to keep our picks from now on, just because we need a deep prospect pool for the coming years. Could you imagine if we traded the pick that would be Yama, but for a rental last season?
A GM is based on results. So far, Chia's team doesn't have results. I don't think that continues.