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Kr55 wrote on Thu, 05 March 2026 08:32


Yeah, I've never heard any fan anywhere, especially not here, saying that this team was poorly managed.

We have all been cheering on Bobby Burgers, Chiarelli, Holland, JJ, Bowman, MacT, Tambo and the like the whole way through while they did super impressive management work.

We can only blame ourselves for these results.


100%. And really, none of us are NHL GMs, so who are we to criticize, right? That job is hard, stressful and probably underpaid!

This feels like panic to me, especially given the number of teams out of the playoff picture and then number of UFAs that they want to move on from and get something for. It's going to be really annoying when a more patient team gets better players for less closer to the deadline.

In a buyer's market, the team moving first is more likely to lose. We now likely are done trading, and the three players we picked off seem unlikely to move the needle. Unlike the one poster who's forever bemoaning lost draft picks, I have no issue moving them - especially when you have the best players in the world in their prime. That 2028 second for Murphy is a 16-year old kid right now, who's unlikely to see NHL ice before 2031. He doesn't help us at all in our window, so I have no issue moving him.

But we have limited trading chips so I'd like to see them being used to get high-impact players. In the entire Connor McDavid era, other than Ekholm, have we ever gotten a deadline player who really was a major contributor? There's some okay performers like Kulak, but how many people played anything close to a Marchand role for Florida last year - or a Spacek, Roloson or Samsonov role in 2006? I feel like our management just lacks any imagination, and has little discipline when it comes to negotiations. It's kind of crazy, given it's the same guy that fleeced us so badly when giving us aged, broken-down Duncan Keith but maybe that's just an indication of how bad Holland is too.

"Thinking that a bad team's best players are the reason the team is bad is the "Tambellini re-signing Lennart Petrell" of sports opinions." @Woodguy55
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