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Originally Posted by inthewings
I agree with most of what you said. I like Cullen a lot, and have liked what I've seen from Sutton from the most part. I don't know if you follow baseball but I love what Alex Anthopoulos is doing with the Jays. Plug the holes with 1 year contracts that you can trade and acquire all the young talent you can. He was quoted as saying "we don't just need good players, we need great ones". That's the attitude I like - don't half ass things with guys like Cullen and Sutton. Spend a few years keeping picks and prospects, trading off UFAs (Volchenkov) and then when you have a good young team add the big UFA and really go for it. If done right, it is effective and sustainable. Murray is setting us up for years of mediocrity right now and I hate it.
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No i don't care about baseball anymore.
You see the incommensurable amount of whining regarding the loss of 2 round picks?
Do you realize what it would have cost to acquire "great players" instead of "good players" and that we don't have enough cap space going forward because our best (and highest paid) players are supposed to be Spezza, Alfredsson, Fisher, Phillips, Volchenkov, Kelly... ). Add Kuba, Michalek, Kovalev as stop gaps. We'll win or lose with them.
Maybe we just drafted the wrong guys in the 1st place and our core is not adequate?
Murray wasn't the one who drafted the core. He kept them long-term as he tought they were adequate, after going to a SCF.
Did you ever asked yourself those questions?
Murray is not even the GM of this team for 3 years. He
is only starting to put his print on this team. Guys like Kuba, Carkner and Kovalev are just stop gaps.
Michalek
E.Karlsson
Winchester
Z.Smith
Seems to be guys who will stay long term. Not sure about others yet.
We'll see what the future holds with Cowen, Lehner, Wiercioch, Petersson, Silfverberg, Hoffman...
You just can't rebuild (because that's what Murray is doing after all)
an NHL team overnight... It takes time. Look around the league, look how much time it took to the Hawks, Pens, Kings, Caps,...
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I like where our transition is going. Maybe i'm one of the few to see that.
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In 07-08, Murray realized that our defense and goaltending had to be changed (Corvo wanted out, Redden and Meszaros were regressing fast, Emery was out of his mind, Gerber was Gerber...).
He kept the 2 sure values : Phillips and Volchenkov
But he brought in : Karlsson, Wiercioch, Blood, Kuba, Sutton, Campoli, Wideman, Borowiecki, Leclaire, Lehner...
That's a lot of possibilities to make something interesting in the end.
- Now we know that Alfie won't last forever and that Heatley quit on us. We need to prepare the future of the forward group
For now Murray brought in :
Kovalev, Ruutu, Shannon, Cullen and Donovan as stop gaps.
Michalek, Winchester, Caporusso, Silfverberg, Grant, Petersson, Hoffman, O'Brien, Z.Smith, Costello, Cowick
There's still some work to do on the forward front but we are heading in the right direction, building from the net out. Murray is a builder and moving 2 draft picks doesn't change that... One of those draft picks was previously acquired by him, just like last year for Campoli.
He will give us a future, something we didn't have 2-3 years ago. We were a 1 line team with a solid shutdown duo and no goaltending.
You need to look at the big picture to understand NHL management and i'm not sure many people do that on these boards. It takes a lot of time and analysis.
