Bob Murray Discussion

[IDuck]

Originally Posted by TheJoeMan

Like what? Not to come off antagonistic (I'm really not) but I am curious to know what moves you claim to have cost [us] dearly. Letting Beauch walk was a mistake but only in hindsight. I think of a lot of us thought Wiz was going to carry that load and he didn't and then Whitney fell apart and then Scotty retired. If he knew all of that was going to happen I don't think he would have let him walk.

But other than that what bad moves that cost this team? I feel like he's made moves that didn't have an impact but didn't cost us either (Christensen, Artyukhin, Sutton etc.) The only stub prospect we lost was Gardiner and that only hurts because Schultz effed us.

i actually agree....not to mention he flipped whitney into vish, went out and got lydman and both had carear years...and this is leaving out this past summers moves...now where i go back and forth with murph is all the R2,cristenson,etc. guys that were just kind of moves to make moves IMO, but a lot of the frustration with those move to me, were that we didnt know what the teams direction/identy was so they just seemed weird...

[Paul4587]

Originally Posted by Exit Dose

I like how people here are saying I'll gladly eat crow if blah, blah, blah, but when that moment looks like it might be on the horizon they have to redraw the argument to be something else. Now it's that we had a sizable young core that should have won for the next five seasons. Or just become completely obtuse. It's nice to know that you guys have the great character that you spend so much time telling us you have.

Not sure if the bolded is directed at me but if it is - when have I ever done that? I'll gladly admit when I'm wrong and I don't think I make excuses when predictions I make don't happen.

As for my opinion that we didn't need a rebuild - we have had two elite forwards and one very good first liner in their early to mid twenties the past 4 years as well as a top 10 goalie and many other valuable pieces. Teams with those pieces in place shouldn't be needing to rebuild.

[Exit Dose]

Originally Posted by Paul4587

As for my opinion that we didn't need a rebuild - we have had two elite forwards and one very good first liner in their early to mid twenties the past 4 years as well as a top 10 goalie and many other valuable pieces. Teams with those pieces in place shouldn't be needing to rebuild.

Funny how the team we beat in '07 wound up doing exactly that, but that's just an aside. I need you to expand on the part in bold.