And that article is exactly why Roy is out of a job. He can't evaluate talent. Period. Nick Holden is at best a 3rd pairing d-man probably best suited in 6th/7th d-man roll. I don't think there are too many scouts/professionals that would disagree with this assessment. Not to mention the advanced stats will back this evaluation.
When you have Roy saying things like Holden is one of my better d-man, there is a problem. At best last year he was the 4th best d-man on our team.
So glad Roy is no longer part of the organization. It sounds like he is just off his rocker. I'm glad Sakic is still around it seems like he can actually evaluate the state of the team and get rid of dead weight like Holden.
This is just further proof that Roy was probably behind most of the questionable decisions regarding personnel and contracts.
Agreed. While we'll never have the whole story and Sakic certainly needs to take his share of the blame...just because someone suggests something, doesn't mean to go along for the ride...there is a lot of evidence that indicates very, very curious decisions when it comes to Roy.
When we think back to the Downey for Talbot deal, we were all on a huge 'high' from the 14-2 start to really care that much about how that went down. Downey did have 7 pts in 11 gp when that happened but when the news surfaced that a whole bunch of other GMs didn't even know he was available, that was kind of a head scratcher. As it turned out, Talbot was at the end of the road and so was Downie but that's neither here nor there. The fact that the due dillligence wasn't done in this case was the problem.
As I keep saying over and over, if Roy's suggestions/decisions were GOOD there is no reason to gradually freeze him out.
If Roy really thought that Holden was one of his best dmen then I doubt that he'd have agreed to trade him for a 4th pick.
In fact, he probably didn't agree with that trade. At all.
Agreed. For me, THAT'S the issue. Roy didn't say anything that wasn't true. Holden
was one of our best d-men on some nights last season. The fact that he apparently sees nothing wrong with that IS the problem. A large 90% of fans (if not more) on this board saw it as a problem and our GM/Management team saw it as a problem as well so they jettisoned him for whatever they could get.
Personally, the fact that Roy didn't agree with the Jost pick pissed me off, big time! It's almost as if he never seen him play, read the line that he was 5'11" and 190lbs and immediately disagreed.
He's going to look foolish on that one, you can bank on it.