Xspyrit
DJ Dorion
Yeah, this is pretty simple stuff and you've outlined it perfectly. Management couldn't put together a competent AHL defense and made moves to actively hurt it. This hurts all prospects in Belleville. Its an unstructured mess.
It all comes back to the Sens inability and lack of pro scouting. They are just completely incapable of properly assessing players in the NHL and AHL and have a very backwards way of valuing players (especially Dmen). The people arguing with you here are just gaslighting Sens fans and making excuses for incompetence that we've all become very accustomed to over the years here in Dorions time. The people in charge here have not done their job. Full stop.
Gotta feel for Troy Mann, he had skill last year and look what he was able to do, and that was with very little AHL veteran talent.
Brannstrom played 27 AHL Games last year but is NHL ready and needed now. I guess Thomson replaces him but he's not as good
Jordan Murray wasn't very good defensively but good on the PP and could produce offense. Who is replacing him? Colby Williams? Olle Alsing? Yeah, no one.
Aspirot and Dougherty are back. Jaros and Lajoie gone, Alsing and Williams in.
Corrado is gone, Goloubef is an addition but has looked really bad so far. Not sure what is going on with him
Belleville was good last season on the strenght of top prospects but with Norris, Batherson, Balcers, Brannstrom, Jaros and Lajoie gone, Mann isn't able to hide the team deficiencies anymore.
I'm not sure I really understand what is wrong exactly but sometimes it feels like Dorion goes based on old reports and viewings he had on players 2 years ago. Does he assume that everything stays equal? Does he go with what seems to be a good solution but didn't see this or that coming?
I think the guy has good intentions but most of the time, it just backfires. In the end, it comes down to :
You need foresight to be a good GM in the NHL. And with Melnyk as an owner, we need an extremely good GM.