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 Adam
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Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
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| Burgeoboy wrote on Fri, 14 July 2023 14:27 |
How Holland managed the cap after 2020 is certainly questionable and I am not defending all of his moves, but you have to admit him and most GMs where in a though place and it been a big issue league wide. Trying to build a winning team in the flat cap area, was hard for all the top teams. Most, if not all spend to the cap and go in to the season limited in what moves they can make.
Vegas gave away Max Pacioretty for nothing, Tampa as let countless players walk, and overpaid for young cost control players (Hagal/Jeannot), how any pics/assets have Toronto burned trough to have salary retained on rental players, Colorado had to let good players walk, even teams that have not been good have had major cap issues, like Vancouver. The sharks can't trade a 100 point Dman and Matt Dumba can't get a deal in free agency, why are free agents taking 1 year deals? There's clearly cap issues league wide, not just in Edmonton. I am not saying 2 (or 32) wrongs make a right, what I am saying is, clearly the past few years have put a wrench into everyone plans, so I don't think it fair to single out Holland and act like we would have done better, he as actually feared better than most.
Although I don't like every move he has made and yeah I look forward to a change in GM, I think he as done a lot better than some here give him credit for, especially under the circumstances.
How I ended up defending Holland in thread about one of his deal I hate, I well never know....
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My biggest issue is Holland trying to use that as a crutch right now. The Cap not moving isn't an excuse for failure, especially if you fail to do anything to adapt to the new realities or to work the rules to the best of your ability.
You pointed out a bunch of things that other teams did specifically because they had cap crunches and they needed to work within them. Some of those teams won Cups because they made those moves.
Also - I think if you were talking about the first COVID year and how that was a surprise and how it wreaked havoc, that might be fine. I mean, I still don't like the excuses because the other teams were in the exact same boat and some managed, but we're now in the third off-season post-COVID, so maybe the flat cap shouldn't be the giant surprise that Holland makes out that it is. He's been saying that the Puljujarvi and Yamamoto deals were done with the expectation we were going to have a big jump in cap that didn't materialize, but he should have understood the hole that COVID created and probably this shouldn't have caught him completely off guard when we don't see a big jump this year.
Honestly, I think if your GM starts blaming external factors that affect all teams the same, it's probably a sign that you need a new GM.
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