Weal and Thompson were additions to a team already in the playoffs, that was never supposed to be. They certainly weren't substructions. careful with your hyperbole then I don't know what to tell you? It seemed like an obvious statement to me. I guess, one again, you were expecting us to get Duchene or something...
Once again - false dichotomy.
I didn't want Duchene. But again, if you're asking me what I want then I wanted to sell, not buy.
What I care little for are trades like Thompson that are not going to change much of anything in the grand scheme of things. We are not a contending team in need of depth on the 4th line. All these trades do is give ammo to guys like you who can then say ''Bergevin did make a move! I guess you were crazily expecting Duchene or something..''.
We NEED to trade Weber and Price or we aren't rebuilding, we NEED to trade for (whom?) at the deadline or we aren't improving the team.
Neither of those things is necessarily true and neither worked the way they were supposed to this year, I'll give you that.
Yes, we need to sell guys who are likely to have declined by the time our rebuild is complete and ready to be more competitive. Moving those guys will help us 1) draft higher in the present and 2) get more assets who'll help us in the future where we want to be competitive.
But if we are a bubble team shooting for the POs. No, obviously you don't trade Poehling and Romanov, but you try to get better mid range depth to help you get over the hump. Not a freaking 4th line center.
No, we haven't, but you don't need to that all in one year - you're creating your own misery with these all or nothing doomsday scenarios that just don't really make sense in the context of an actual hockey team.
Nobody ever suggested it had to be done in a year, that's your own fabrication. What needs to be established is a direction, which hasn't been done. Are we stocking up on more prospects? Are we going to trade some for an established player? Are we going for free agents?
None of us have an idea. Why? Because there is no set direction.
Yeah it was a good year, I enjoyed watching this year. I don't see the rush to getting rid of the only D men able to play hockey on our team in Petry and Weber as so many are advocating at the moment. We don't currently have replacements for Price and Weber, get some or develop some and then get rid of them. You also don't need to get rid of all your vets to rebuild. That's false.
Who cares man? Is the objective to ''enjoy watching'' or ''build a legit contender''?
Aren't we rebuilding? So who cares if we have no replacement for Petry ready to step in? Again, this goes back to how you need structure and planning.
When are we expecting to be competitive? In 3 years? Well Petry has 2 years left on his deal, he was having a career year. Do we want Petry here in 3 years signed to a new longterm deal? Or are we better off moving him now while he's excelling to maximize the return, getting us even more kids/assets that we could use more down the line when we're expected to compete?...
You're not understanding some simple logic here. Again, it's not about trading everyone within a few months, it's about having a clear direction.
Same goes for Tatar. If the goal is to wait for the Romanovs..Poehlings..Suzukis...even KK...to not only be NHLers but ready to actually take on key roles, then are we better off keeping the Tatars-Petrys in order to fight to make the POs or are we better off moving those guys and bulking up what will be our future core? Seems obvious to me.
Apparently on hfboards every year is either a cup or a lottery pick. No wonder there's so much sourpuss disappointment.
Such strawman BS.
There will come a time where we will be transitioning from rebuild to contending, when that happens we might be in that bubble zone, but that is not where we currently are. We don't have enough high end talent to transition up towards competing yet and drafting 15th is exactly what we didn't want this year.
