LongtimeLeafsufferer
Rejoint: juill. 2015
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I know folks like to blame everything on Melynk for demise of the Sens. A few years ago they were in the Conference Finals...no real complaints about their on ice product. Then they made the Duchene trade to improve the team...well they didn't quite work, but it wasn't because of cheapness.
Three upcoming UFAs Karlsson, Duchene, Stone weren't helping the Sens in the standings, and they wanted the options of being UFAs. Can't blame Melnyk for trading three outgoing UFAs on a unsuccessful team and the Sens certainly did OK in those trades.
Might be the Sharks were regret signing Karlsson for so much, and in time even Vegas might have regrets with long term Stone.
IMO the Sens did the right thing this year by not overpaying for UFAs. Sens will have the option of signing their own RFAs with cap money. Plus the Sens have lots of picks/prosepects from those three trades. Now if Melynk continue to be cheap, yea there is point of blaming cheap Melynk for the Sens continuing low standings. But right now, he looks like he doing a proper rebuild.
Wanna blame Melynk for being cheap fine. I would suggest more paying fans fill or near fill the arena, or are the fans being cheap by not buying tickets. Yea it's the chicken and the egg.