PattyLafontaine
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- Apr 5, 2006
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Yeah and how valuable in that cap space when DW immediately fills it with overpaid Vet UFAs this offseason because he and/or this org still think this team is a playoff hopeful team?
That is why not caring about the return for Hertl is impulsive and shortsighted. It assumes we will actually use the cap space for "all sorts of interesting opportunities" when DW has made no indication he has any desire or prerogative to do that.
I agree with you that the cap space is valuable, if and only if, DW and/or this organization actually intend to use it for interesting opportunities a la Arizona. If things are status quo with DW than that cap space is worthless in comparison to Hertl, and then adding insult to injury by only getting a late 1st and blah prospect for Hertl really starts to sting badly.
Doug Wilson should be fired based on your reasoning. I mean he should have been shitcanned after the 2014 debacle.
If you don’t trust your GM to make the right moves then he shouldn’t be the GM.
Fixing this team is easy. It just requires making the gaming theory decisions. Of course hockey relies the most of any sport on luck an intangibles, but those things tend take of themselves when you make strong decisions based on a mixture of analytics and reasoning.
The constant appeal to authority is ridiculous. It reminds me of how people deified Jose Mourinho despite all of his short comings and would not listen to the danger signals because he was one of the best managers in the world.
If you do not innovate and turnover your “roster” you become stale and you’ve already lost.
The Sharks are in the position they are in because of incompetent management.