Yes, loser mentality.
- You aren’t demanding anything, you are complaining on the internet about a team that has been leaving you behind for a few seasons now.
- You don’t have any special deeper understanding of things dude, you just think you do, and it’s spiralling you off in to oblivion.
- No one in their right mind would look at our team and claim that we have been take one step forward and two steps back, at best you could argue the opposite. That should really be reason for you to take a step back and examine your evaluation skills. It is verifiably incorrect and out of touch.
- If a poster will minimize trading for DBC, or Chycrun, or signing G or Stu or Zub or Norris or Brady as a ‘splash move’ move, while deriding the team for massive blunders like putting Balcers on waivers, I pretty much know everything I need to know about that poster‘s internal narrative.
There's maybe 2-3 other posters who think like you do but yet it's all of us who are out of touch
This management and coaching is so optimal, they're the best and it shows in the results. It's just us who are spiraling into oblivion
And to the last point, if that's what you take out of my analysis, maybe you should listen to your advice and examine your own understanding/reading skills.
It's like when I was arguing that this team didn't have veteran support a few years ago and I was getting a list of all the greats vets we had. I was surely shown lol
But yeah let's ignore reality that the clock has been ticking. Chabot and Tkachuk 5 years left, Batherson 4 years left, Giroux and Chychrun 2 years left. Our prospect pool is so good due to our elite asset management and drafting that we'll be able to replace those guys effortlessly if/when they age or decide to go the UFA route.
It's not about making splash moves, it's about making the RIGHT moves... The right moves would have been to keep Paul, Brown, Gustavsson and go after a top-4 RHD (not like we didn't have assets considering what was spent on DeBrincat/Chychrun) instead of going for DeBrincat, Joseph, Talbot and Hamonic. Plus, sink or swim with the same coaching staff. Result : we sucked 5v5 and our bottom-6 was probably the worst in the NHL. Our defense was still not properly constructed on top of we're just not "playing the right way"
We could possibly make the time wasted back by starting to win in the playoffs next year, but there's also the possibility that it takes several years before winning a round against a top team. Chabot might be 30 y/o by then... But hey, no problem... expecting/wanting more is a loser mentality