absolute garbage
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LV fans should be happy. McPhee isn't gonna help you guys win a Cup immediately or anything, but looking at his track record in DC, he should help build a strong, perennial playoff team. Especially if he learned from the mistakes made in DC, i.e, trading Forsberg for Erat and Latta, trading Eakin for Ribeiro, getting great production out of Ribeiro, and then not re-signing him, etc. When you add the good he did in DC, he was able to net us:
-Alex Ovechkin
-Braden Holtby
-Nick Backstrom
-John Carlson
-Karl Alzner
-Evgeny Kuznetsov
-Andre Burakovsky
Those are basically the core players of this franchise. So while he did make some colossal mistakes that overshadow what he did here (Ross Mahoney does deserve a lot of credit as well), LV fans should be happy about this as long as they don't keep him around too long.
You mean he made the team so terrible that his scouting staff was able to draft some excellent players with high picks who then carried the team as far as they could (not very far at all because the rest of the team he managed to put together was crap)?
Yeah, that's not really an achievement. Vegas is off to a bad start here. McPhee is an outdated, incompetent doofus, and this is an awful 'old boys club' hire.