Take a look at Buffalo last year.....
Tippett doesn't get long term thinking.....
Addressing two points you made.
Buffalo can afford making public statements like that; they have an immensely rich, local owner whose goal is to win with his team rather than own the team as an investment or to be in a select group of professional sports team owners. They also have a well-established fanbase that can still fill the arena even if a 10% of the fanbase are more fairweather and stay away during a down year. There's probably real truth to the matter that if the Coyotes can't increase attendance, they're off to another city, so it's a fine balance between sacrificing some future potential now to make it look like they aren't going to be bottom-feeders this season so that they can actually have that future potential play in Arizona in another few seasons.
Maloney shapes the long-term outlook of the team far more than Tippett ever can, and I think recent history with the team demonstrating issues with players developing from their draft potential reflects more on Maloney's inability to staff the right people, or people at all in some cases, in the development and scouting areas.
Look at our last couple drafts and the consensus is that the Coyotes have done very well. This may be attributed to such things as the scouting budget increasing and allowing for expanding from, I think, 1 scout for the entire continent of Europe, so either we've gotten lucky (as it's only a sample size of 2), or Maloney is demonstrating again how he's one of the best at his position if he's given the same resources.
I feel it's unfair to lob so much criticism at Tippett for not developing young players as well. It's probably more endemic to the entire development system of the organization, but there's hope! If the organization invested in that area as well and as much as they did with the scouting a couple seasons or so ago (whenever they actually got that influx of cash for investing in infrastructure), then it could be that our prospects are given what's needed to actual reach their potential now. It's only been a couple seasons, so the results of this might not start really showing through until later when we can see that players who can't make that jump straight from juniors to the NHL are successfully traversing through the AHL and onto the full-time roster. Besides, we've also assigned Regier to GM Springfield and hired a new head coach and assistants, so hopefully that points to the whole system being in alignment as to how to bring up prospects properly.
Anyway, I think the organization has been so thin outside of Tippett and Maloney, that placing so much blame on them is misguided. Tippett can't be expected to develop players to that degree when they're brought up to the NHL level; that's something the organization's development level needs to be capable of, and until recently, it probably hasn't been able to do, though it's likely too soon to tell yet.
