It is quite simple. Everything revolves around Dubas' inability to create a team. He reminds me of buying event tickets online. You can pick your own seats or best available. I am a Dubas hater but am not as down on Tavares as everyone else. Tavares was the best available at the time but there was no thought about how he would fit into Dubas' vision of a team, assuming he had one. Tavares was never a great or fast skater, that's not his game. That is painfully obvious. He can't play the run and gun game but he tries. Dubas then signs all the next best vailable to ubsurd contracts but each one thinks they are the best on the team, again no regard for chemistry. When it all goes south, Dubas panics and goes after Thornton, Simmonds, Foligno et al because sometime somewhere they had talent. Again, he had no regard for how they would mesh into a team, let alone that they were washed up. So, there you have it a group of 20+ guys that cannot perform as one on the ice because the team was purchased off the rack not a tailor-made fit.
