Pessimists are just that. There are always flaws to everything because anything can literally happen, even if its unlikely. Since Mike Green is part of the discussion here... Lets not forget that when we did not have a puck moving defenseman, the cry here was that Holland was unwilling to trade for one or that he 'made things so horrible' that they just wouldn't sign here... Now the drum is that he should have went for the rebuild back in 13.. Except at the time, the drum was that he was holding back the young picks for his country club and therefore wasting the last best years that Z and D had left in them and therefore icing a less competitive team as a result... And again, at the time, Holland was kicking tires on acquiring a PMD...We lose to Boston and Tampa and generally the cry was that our team is too soft. Then we resign the only grit on the team that we have. (To market value despite the BS on here) and well, country club crap again.
You folks here make no room for the fact that in that same time-span Weiss went south, as did Kronwall, Franzen is pretty much retired, Cole never even got a chance to play, Datsyuk ditched on his contract, (How dare Ken Holland not anticipate that a player under contract will actually not honor it) Babcock went to Toronto, Nyquist and Tatar showed no improvement....
So yes, Holland did try and keep this team competitive and for good reason too. He still had his core in D and Z and Kronwall at the time with youngsters looking good really out of the gate. Way too many things went absolutely wrong and therefore it didn't work out. However, go re-read where and how the complaints were pretty much going at the top of this very post and it's pretty clear that at the end of the day, none of you had a clue to begin with and make very selective use of hindsight to cry about the man that actually knew where he wanted to steer the ship at the time. Even now, where your cries have actually been addressed, you pretend like you never made them, to begin with and wanted something different....