See there it is again. "The right price".
We've been toiling around for 30 years because of this mentality. #1 D and first line centers you have to overpay for, no team gets them on the cheap unless they're drafted and even then it's only for 3 years now. Sometimes you have to bite the bullet and break out the platinum to dine with the hot chick. The second you start with the bean counting and second guessing you will always find faults in the player. Always. Too small, skating, injuries Yada Yada Yada. Fortune favors the bold and as LCS says, this Fredo style management hasn't won shit.
If you go down at least you went down swinging. Bergevin went down swinging his final year and got fucking close but at least he had the balls to swing and swing hard.
The absolute constant bashing of talent here is absurd and makes me just want to smack people. They talk about pussy hockey well this is what it looks like. A team in complete disarray.
HuGo has this summer from me before I write them off and go on a tirade about them. The trades they made were gambles, I never liked the Newhook deal. Dach yeah I had hopes but it's clear he has a case of the Drouins now.
PLD is a shmuck but he's producing in Washington. Jiricek is immature and needs to work on skating but still worth the risk at his age. Perfection is the enemy of good, there is no perfection in sports and trying to find it in transactions is a fools errand.
There's an old expression in business, accountants make the worst entrepreneurs. I'll leave it to you to figure out why that is.
Unfortunately the cap exists. So the price matters. I
think the Habs have largely done what you are saying for 30 years. And it hasn't worked.
Eg. gomez, gionta, cammy. It wasn't good enough even with young price, gally, etc.
Definitely fine with spending on a first line centre. Or paying for something that will be elite.
I'd rather pay for ekblad than trade for jiricek.
PLD is exactly what I want to avoid. 4 goals, 21 points on a team that has everything going right. No thanks. Especially not in our position.
I said Hugo has been not so great just a few days ago. So that might be the only thing we agree on.
Almost everything has been bad.
Newhook, Dach, Barron. All fails so far.
Drafting at the top has not looked good so far.
Slaf. Was looking good but not so much anymore. And could be a disaster at his cap hit.
Reinbacher. Well I think you know my thoughts there.
Demidov. I'm optimistic but he has been up and down.
Better luck later with Hage, hutson, fowler.
Suzuki and caufield have progressed nicely but not sure the credit there.
