Would Trotz come here in 2018 if Kelly McCrimmon was GM? McCrimmon was a career junior GM. His first NHL front office job was in 2016 as assistant GM of the Knights. He was named GM 3 years later. Not saying Trotz only comes here for Lou but I think it's a long shot that he comes for a rookie GM (on the heals of the Snow regime).
If any GM thinks Scott Mayfield and Pierre Engvall are our "best players" then we have way bigger issues.
He needs to more aggressive in carving out some of the ‘core’ players.
Every GM does dumb deals. Mayfield is fine. Engvall is not a very good player, but looked good last year with Nelson and one of the contributors to the end of the season run. He looked like he could be a 40-50 point player. At $3M, that could be a nice deal. However, hasn’t worked out and his warts are pretty darn obvious.
Being Roy is a spreadsheet guy, it's time for the GM to speak his language. I don't think he does.
Lou waited too long for that.
The only one who didn't see it was Lou's eye test.
Good post. I agree that trying to trade one of Pelech or Pulock should be a priority, although obviously they both have NTCs. It's a problem that 3 of the top 4 D are basically defensive defensemen, and Romanov is young/cheap enough that he should stay. It's been several years now that they've been lacking sufficient puck-moving skill on the back end.
Better than myopia which is what many of our fans have.
Now who's being disingenuous? You know what the point was, and it little to do with Kelly McCrimmon himself, but rather his style and the way Vegas conducts their business in general. But, again, you knew that and decided to make a snarky, asinine comment anyway.
This is what you wrote:
Your not so stupid as to not know what a rhetorical question is. The last stand of a failed argument is always resorting to literalism.
Graf would be a solid add and worth a chance
In my gut I feel like he’s going to the other clowns that also get the top guys. But yeah I’d go heavy on the recruitment of Graf
It's not enough to get guys that hate to lose and work hard - I think this team has that - they lack talent, youth and speed. That's what they need to get this offseason - and it's a lot tougher to get than hard workers
if Tavares was traded as he should have been or the Islanders would have realized he was never going to re-sign, Lou and Barry never would have been here, I am convinced the only reason Lou and Barry were brought here was as an incentive to get Tavares to re-sign, the re-build should have started 6 years ago in reality.
Absolutely as far as the last part is concerned. I essentially got kicked off these boards for saying that very thing back then. People just don't like to hear the truth.
Roy is a future President of Hockey Ops/GM, he sees what the fans are thinking.
