I just love how Doug Wilson absolutely bends other general managers over the barrel and finds ways to creatively retool on the fly to keep the team competitive. Puts out a hell of a team each of every year through vision, foresight, a lot of creativity, and the willingness to, again, absolutely **** up other general managers at the negotiating table. Like Chara-level ragdolling ****ups. He's built an organization players love to be a part of and although the team has never gotten over the hump and finally grabbed a Cup, he's done just about as brilliant a job a general manager can do.
And yet, HFBoards ****s all over him for being good at his job, brilliantly demanding instead of icing good teams he should just intentionally suck ass for years and years so the league hands him teenagers with bright futures while he rids himself of anyone making over 3 million a year.
I get building through the draft and all, but this obsession with tanking and cap space and maybe hitting the jackpot 5 to 10 years from now rather than, you know, being good today is ****ing laughable. Doug Wilson just locked up a top-3 player in the entire goddamn world and everyone is pissing themselves over the fact the Sharks should buy a lottery ticket for a decade from now rather than intentionally and intelligently trying to win both now and in the future.
If you guys like teams just blowing the **** up and being absolute dog**** terrible for years at a time in order to acquire some shiny prospect, go watch the Marlins or something.
