TomasHertlsRooster
Don’t say eye test when you mean points
You havent been following hockey for very long have you.
What are you talking about? My join date is 2012. Ottawa’s ownership has been a mess for a very long time. Bryan Murray concealed it much better than Pierre Dorion has but they will be a mess as long as Melnyk owns the team.
The senators have the same amount of Stanley Cup appearances as the Sharks do and if you want to use recency bias than sure the Sharks are better managed but let’s not forget the Senators had a core of Spezza, Chara, Redden for many years along with Hossa/Heatley they were one of the best teams in the East for the better part of the 2000’s. And if the Sharks are so great at signing free agents where is the long history of top free agent signings? He may be uber rich great where is the history of that landing great free agents ? Again your making irrelevant points than calling me immature
Recency bias? I’m talking about the last f***ing decade. You want to use Doug Wilson’s entire tenure, since 2003? Where they’re 1st in regular season wins and 2nd in playoff wins? Be my guest. Anything more than that, when the team was under different management, with different ownership and none of the same players, I don’t see the point in using.
Where did I mention a great history of free agents? All of Doug Wilson’s best additions have been through the draft or through trade. He’s added solid free agents like Paul Martin and Joel Ward, though. And he’s used his trading ability to sign players like Mikkel Boedker and then trade them for Florida’s leading goal scorer, Mike Hoffman. That’s another star player in his mid-20s that Doug Wilson acquired, he just gets forgotten because Wilson traded him in order to create cap space and avoid a locker room distraction.
If you’re willing to say Hoffman right now could roughly replace one of Pavelski or Couture (and as I understand, that’s what you were saying before), then you should understand that when the time comes, Wilson will find replacements for Pavelski and Couture. Both of those players have been declining for years and are being shifted to secondary roles. It hasn’t hurt the team.