rboomercat90
Registered User
But they did upgrade their D. They spent a lot of money on Nikitin and Fayne. This team is damn close to being up against the cap. The problem here is the same as it's been for over a decade. Lowe and Mactavish have no clue how to judge talent and properly value their players.Their playoffs hopes were legitimately over when A) they rolled into the season with Eakins still in place as head coach and B) they refused to upgrade their D to anything resembling respectability that would even have a faint hope of getting the team close to even mediocre in that department.
So in short the season was over and any chance at the playoffs were over by early July.
I agree with you that our playoff hopes were over in July. I even went so far back then to say that this team reminded me of the team in 2009-10 that was spent to the cap with a bunch of lousy players signed to long term contracts. I said this team was in worse shape for the future now than we have been since that year. It's amazing to me how much damage Mactavish has done here in just a year and a half.