Why? Has DW not iced the best team every season? I think he has. Has PDB gotten the most out of his team every season? No ****ing way.
How do you know? Or any of us for that matter.
All we do know is, DW has yet to build a cup winning team. We can all debate whether we have had teams that were capable of winning a cup sure, but none of them have and so how do you, or I, or anyone know whether the GM could have done more, or made better decisions.
DW has absolutely built good, playoffs teams, some of which I personally would agree
could have won a cup, but they never do. Sometimes it feels like those teams let themselves down, others feel like coaching, and obviously injuries have played major factors too, even though that last one is shared by all teams.
So at this point we’ve tried different coaches, different systems, different players, heck we’ve even had ownership changes all while DW has stayed the constant on this painfully promising but cupless team.
At this point it’s clear some people don’t care and just want DW to keep churning out playoff ready teams forever, and honestly if that’s what pleases some people that’s fine I’m done trying to argue about it with those people, we can disagree and the world will still turn. For some others we just want to move in a new direction, and we’ve seen changes to everything else but the GM these last 16 years, so I don’t feel it’s crazy to think that maybe a new set of eyes and plans coming from the top, might not be a terrible idea and might even be the last little nudge that takes us from contender to winner.