Équipe: 2020-21 Sharks de San Jose

Date de création initiale: 12 oct. 2020

Publié: 12 oct. 2020

Mode - plafond salarial: Basique

Doug Wilson has shown a complete incompetence in team strategy one way or another.

Many people clam for a rebuild. Given the way the roster is constructed with the no-trade-clauses and egregious contract terms (thank you Wilson), this is very difficult to achieve. Unless Wilson is somehow able to move out contracts for good value, this is unlikely.

Given this, Wilson should build as deep a roster possible under the weight of the salary cap. So many free agents this year that could have helped this team have a legitimate chance to contend, as listed below. He does not go after a SINGLE ONE, and instead raves about how much two resignings in Noesen and an-overpaid-but-forgivable-if-other-moves-are-made-to-supplement-this-overpayment Labanc mean to the team.

Summary: Wilson insists on either remaining in the mid-tier of NHL teams purgatory with a bleak future to look forward to at best, or on becoming bottom-dwellers without recuperating future assets for existing players who have whatever value left getting less and less by the year.

Look, I know free agency has its risks, and so many people for instance in 2016 were going after Wilson for not signing guys like Loui Eirksson and Kyle Okposo. Kudos to Wilson for being aware. But there are some AMAZING deals without much term or even cap in this market to go after, and we're blessed to have an owner that lets us spend to the cap.

But he does nothing, as he's done throughout his entire tenure as a Sharks GM in the Free Agency department if we exclude Rob Blake and Paul Martin. Nothing! Not another single noteworthy/impactful signing! That's almost two decades of Free Agency incompetence -- enough is enough! No more either doing nothing or signing Adam Burish and Melker Karlsson to 4-year deals and pretending like it's going a big deal or going to have a big impact. Or going after Colin White Michael Haley Jody Shelley John Scott or all the other depth guys he's gone after and pretending like it's going to have a big impact. Noesen's that guy this year, and while I'm GLAD he's back, I HATE how every year they focus in on a 4th liner or random depth defenseman the first day of free agency and celebrate the signing as if we won the cup.

It's time for a change. Bring in Dubas's assistant to replace him.

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