Depends on if you have a half a brain or not.
If you did literally nothing from 2015 onwards but simply waited for a Larsson-tier D-Man to be available for a more reasonable cost (Hamonic, Tanev, McDonagh, etc. etc.), likely the team is in the playoffs right now.
If you want to bet the farm on stupid trades ... yeah, this isn't the job for you.
If you have half a brain you probably can figure out how to build a team around Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl and Ryan Nugent Hopkins in a reasonable time frame.
Until everyone in management is cleared out, I don't think any respectable hockey mind would want the job. Why the hell would you want to share airspace with those f***ing morons?
Until Daryl Katz decides he wants to be the owner of a successful hockey team, and not just a successful businessman, I don't blame anyone with any sense for running the opposite direction. It has nothing to do with being smart enough to identify what good players the team actually has.
These f***ing goons have run a once storied franchise into the f***ing ground for almost the last 15 years. Every single thing they have done in every single department off the ice can be summed up into one giant steaming pile of dogshit, and as such the on ice product has a foul stench about it. Almost every decision they make blows up in their face. And yet they're still employed. Whatever capacity that may or may not be is completely irrelevant to the fact that they failed spectacularly for a decade in what they are being paid to do.
The fact that people around here advocate for any of these f***ing assclowns to remain employed in any capacity for any reason at all hockey related or not makes me sad because it means that die hard fans like myself who have supported this team through thick and thin are still apparently okay with being a total f***ing joke of a hockey franchise by not doing what needs to be done.
What the actual f***, boys?
