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smyth260 Messages: 947
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NetBOG wrote on Tue, 14 November 2023 11:23 |
Dragon_Matt wrote on Tue, 14 November 2023 11:49 | I can't wait for the press conference in March, "we had to adjust to a new coach. I just don't think this is the year to go all in. You can't go all in every year."
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Well, he's right, you can't blow your brains out at the deadline every year. there is only so much draft capital to piss away. Very few deadline deals are worth doing. Proper drafting is always the better way to improve. The Bourgault pick was particularly egregious, because the proper guy had fallen to them and everybody was screaming at them to take him, and they punted.
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You most definitely should expend draft capital in Connor McDavid’s twenties. We haven’t done it nearly enough. The one year we finally did trade it away for Ekholm, we went on a run and had our best finish to 6th in the NHL. I can only imagine how much closer to a cup we would have been had Holland and Chiarelli actually used some of their 1st round picks to move the needle.
Everything in Edmonton is happening too late.
Clean house or bust
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