You can get a franchise player 5 picks lower too! Look at picks 16-60 over the past 8 years and you'll find good players / stars / somewhere in between all over the place. The Stars haven't spent to the cap (which would / could / might / if done correctly get you two of those three superstars).Gee three future hall of famers and a several great players during that span. There's no comparison between Detroit and Dallas. I can't believe anyone thinks the final games of this season are some magical means to teach all these players all of a sudden how to win or create some amazing culture that's going to affect this franchise more than actually drafting a franchise player.
With $14m in cap space??? The players have been trying their best and GMJN has been fighting with one hand tied behind his back. It's hardly been the stuff t-shirts are made of.Detroit's success wasn't luck but since we don't have their scouting staff I don't see the harm in having a top 5 pick. The culture of winning is fine in Chicago and they blew for a long time. This team already has a culture of losing - are you people blind? Adding a competitive talented kid ready to possibly contribute next year is not a bad thing. I don't know how many times some of you have to see the same re-run episode before you realize that status quo blows and we need a new tactic. This team has been trying to win for the last four years.
]With $14m in cap space??? The players have been trying their best and GMJN has been fighting with one hand tied behind his back. It's hardly been the stuff t-shirts are made of.
They also didn't have a whole lot to trade away each of the past few seasons. Joe wanted to trade Modano as a rental, but Modano shot that idea down. Other than him, the Stars did not have much to trade at deadline times in years past except some lower line vets with no value.
when the team is able to be in the playoffs with a win in the final game, is the "misjudgment" really all that grotesque?
Cap space doesn't matter if good UFAs don't want to sign here. Which they don't right now.