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2025-2026 Off Season Thread - The Rehappening

Volcanologist said:
yeah the road was wide open when we had the 3 guys on entry contracts

normally you get 3 guys like that you're thinking championship. how many players in league history have had multiple 60 goal seasons?

watching it turn out like this tempts one to believe in the validity of curses.
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signing patrick marleau and then having to dump patrick marleau was a major fuck up
 
That cover makes me sick. We should've had 3 cups by now. It's inconceivable we've never even made the third round once.
 
CH1 said:
signing patrick marleau and then having to dump patrick marleau was a major fuck up
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There's no patience in the organization, or the city. Every move made to accelerate the timeline was a fuckup. The absolute best thing they could have done was just to continue building the organization and make smart moves. We should have been trying to find the Forslings, and Bennetts. We should have been the organization taking advantage of the firesales before the expansion drafts (how good would McCann look for 5 millie right now?). We should have continued stockpiling draft picks. Seth Jarvis would have taken a lot of the sting out of that loss to Columbus, wouldn't it have?

But nope. No patience. We need gud pro experience and we need it now at whatever the cost. Our window was literally 12-15 fucking years and we turned it into a 7 year window instead.
 
We can always overcomplicate with speculative what ifs like finding undervalued gems or drafting the exact same guy with a pick we dealt. We don't even need to go that far.

Letting Hyman go. Choosing Kerf and Holl over McCann. Those two things, easy situations where we had both guys and stupidly sent them off, were what doomed us the last few years.

Can't help feeling Marner is going to be another one, regardless of whatever came before.
 
MindzEye said:
There's no patience in the organization, or the city. Every move made to accelerate the timeline was a fuckup. The absolute best thing they could have done was just to continue building the organization and make smart moves. We should have been trying to find the Forslings, and Bennetts. We should have been the organization taking advantage of the firesales before the expansion drafts (how good would McCann look for 5 millie right now?). We should have continued stockpiling draft picks. Seth Jarvis would have taken a lot of the sting out of that loss to Columbus, wouldn't it have?

But nope. No patience. We need gud pro experience and we need it now at whatever the cost. Our window was literally 12-15 fucking years and we turned it into a 7 year window instead.
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early on I can't blame them. they really thought they had something, at long last, with 34/16/88

and by all rights, they should have had something.

the problem really began with the doubling and tripling down and lavishing on players who provided absolutely no success in exchange. once we got to several straight playoff failures with the same guys pulling the same shit, a winning org starts figuring out how to change things. A losing org wrings its hands and hopes for the best.
 
MindzEye said:
There's no patience in the organization, or the city. Every move made to accelerate the timeline was a fuckup. The absolute best thing they could have done was just to continue building the organization and make smart moves. We should have been trying to find the Forslings, and Bennetts. We should have been the organization taking advantage of the firesales before the expansion drafts (how good would McCann look for 5 millie right now?). We should have continued stockpiling draft picks. Seth Jarvis would have taken a lot of the sting out of that loss to Columbus, wouldn't it have?

But nope. No patience. We need gud pro experience and we need it now at whatever the cost. Our window was literally 12-15 fucking years and we turned it into a 7 year window instead.
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Or get the real deal…. what had Marleau won? Same for Thornton?

Ironically, they were too patient with locking up their 3 young guns and that cost them too.
 
Volcanologist said:
early on I can't blame them. they really thought they had something, at long last, with 34/16/88
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I mean, they did have something. It's easy to forget now, but Auston scored in a lot of big playoff games early in his career. I don't think there was anything inherently busted about any of them in the beginning. We surrounded them with career losers and now act surprised a bunch of years later when they became the exact type of good not great players in pressure situations that we surrounded them with. Marleau, Thornton, Spezza, Gio, Tavares, etc.

They had something, and they fucked it up by trying to rush it because heaven forbid that a bunch of 19-20-21 yr olds lose a few playoff series against cup champions and contender level clubs.
 
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