Cyborg Yzerberg
Registered User
This really sums it up well for me. I remember being called a "cheerleader" dozens of times as I could understand exactly where Holland was coming from in his decision making process. There was a logic to it, and he had success with similar moves before, so you could sympathize when they didn't work out. Even if I didn't love what he was doing, I understood why he was doing it.
But as the meandering results continued to pile up and the questionable decisions became harder to understand, well, yeah here we are. I'm now, like many, disillusioned with Holland's recent body of work and my confidence in him to make impact moves is at an all-time low.
There's no singular event that completely makes you question his abilities as a general manager, but it's been a slow build of perplexing decisions that appears to have hit a crescendo with this latest contract.
Fortunately, drafting and development continues to remain a strength under his reign, even if the talent produced hasn't reached the elite level. It is this fact that saves him in many regards, and his ability to continue to feed his NHL team with good players from within keeps the team consistently in the playoff hunt despite the aforementioned issues.
He's getting old, which is slightly advantageous for us. When you're the yacht captain of the country club, like Holland is, your job is as secure as it gets. So we hopefully just have to wait him out, because sooner than later, he will become President of the organization or something like Holmgrem and Lamoriello(pre-Toronto.)