Modifié 23 juill. 2022 à 11 h 32
Imagine a summer where elite or top-talent, young wingers was available everywhere and Isles couldn’t get one lol. A team in contention-mode by their own standard at least. Isles are one of the worst offensive teams in the league and has a bottom-5 prospect-pool. They didn’t trade Mayfield, Varlamov, Parise, Clutterbuck, Chára and Greene at the deadline (Lou should have tried hard to trade Bailey too or at least this summer). This would have given them draft capital/trade capital and the cap space to offer Gaudreau 10.5-11, I believe that would have sealed the deal, he waited for a team to step up lol, Lou wasn’t in on him by his own words, embarassing.
Lou couldn’t get ONE of:
Fiala
DeBrincat
Gaudreau
Tkachuk
Huberdeau
Burakovsky
Bjorkstrand
Pacioretty
Marchment
Perron
Palat
Niederreiter
Copp
Trocheck
Or guys like Mikheyev, Domi, C. Brown, Stromex2, Kubalík etcetera. Not even a potential high end forward talent in Frank Nazar, Jonathan Lekkerimäki, Kirby Dach (for Isles pick), Danila Yurov, Brad Lambert etcetera. Sure I like Romanov and his upside, but still, that wasn’t (imo) the teams biggest need, far from it.
Long post I know, but I had to rant and I definitely didn’t or want every guy I listed above, just crazy to me how all of those forwards got traded/was signed and Lou couldn’t even get one of them. How he isn’t forced out of town considering the season compared to their pre-season expectations is beyond me. But hey, we still have Josh Bailey in our top-6 and the worst 4th line in hockey, we’ll be fine.