SettlementRichie10
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- May 6, 2012
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This is the part that gets me.
It's basically the dream job.
You inherited hall of famers at C, D, and G. You got a chance at winning again with that squad, and when it failed, you got the go-ahead to rebuild.
So you still have the vets you want, and the myriad picks you need, to build the hell out of a roster, hire a coach, and make some noise.
This many years later--your goalies in the org are Copley, Villalta, and Portillo. Your LHDs are Anderson, a 2nd pairing dman who you traded a 1st for and multiple 2nds to keep for two years, and probably Durzi. None of your 1st round centers are actually playing center. None of your MYRIAD RHD prospects are getting significant NHL time. You're out of 1st round picks for the next two years, and are missing a lot of picks in the top four rounds. You're hitting waiver eligibility deadlines with all of your first picks, most of whom have yet to play more than 5 NHL games. NONE of your top prospects are on their 'ideal' or desired timelines. NONE. Oh, AND you're up against the cap, so you're running out of opportunities to band-aid your own self-inflicted shotgun wounds.
With AEG backing, a low-pressure market, sycophant media that won't hold your feet to the fire, and carte blanche to do basically whatever the hell you want--you finally make the playoffs again five years later without Doughty and Arvidsson and bow out in 7, run it back the next year, and go out even faster without even mounting pressure in most games--THIS is where we are at six years later. That is absolutely f***ing appalling.
So yeah Blake is absolutely OUT of the benefit of the doubt with me. i was ABSOLUTELY WRONG about him. Won't be the first time, certainly won't be the last, but might be the worst.
It’s okay, RJ. Not much is worse than me defending Lombardi not CBOing Richards in 2015.