Quoting: HockeyIsMyPassion61
Yzerman has no interest in a 5'9" smallish winger in Voit.
Erik Johnson is a pending UFA. and the 2025 2nd which is 3 drafts away for Sunny isn't happening.
Erne and Maatta for a bunch of meh players and a late 2nd, Pretty sure Yzerman can do better.
Quoting: Byrr
He didn't actually take Tampa to any of these. He left before any of it.
Quoting: Jfstompers
So love yzerman but he's not infallible. Ned was a miss, this year's been a disaster not that it's all Yzermans fault but he's the man in charge. I think these trades are fair I could see us doing any of them.
Quoting: RipNasty
I think his scouts he had in Tampa did the heavy lifting. He gets all the credit for other people's work. Like when Chiarelli got credit for Boston's win. Or Stan Bowman for the team Tallon built.
Quoting: OldBoisClubSandwich
TOR also messed up his bluff to Stammer who took less money
Stammer/Hedman were 1/2 overalls while Yzerman drafted Drouin 3, Connelly 6 and Slater Koek 10. TB missed playoffs and had awful years while he was there.
EJ is for COL cap, and Sunny has bottom 6 production and doesn't win FO's, what do you think he's worth??
Quoting: InRodWeTrust
Oh I remember. "You'll have to ask them why they are comfortable doing this". I don't think they were, actually. Mgmt's hand was forced. They were not going to qualify Ned and drag the negotiations out, and so he would have been a UFA within a week. The fact that it only took a 3rd told me other GM's had the same hesitation as the Canes.
Quoting: aedoran
Correction Yzweman isn't doing any of that.
Quoting: bagelbob
ned was worth the risk at the time. he hasn’t really panned out but it’s not like it’s totally messed up the window or anything. very low risk, high reward and it just didn’t end up working this year. the chiarot situation is way more confusing to me, dude makes seider way worse.
Quoting: bagelbob
ned was worth the risk at the time. he hasn’t really panned out but it’s not like it’s totally messed up the window or anything. very low risk, high reward and it just didn’t end up working this year. the chiarot situation is way more confusing to me, dude makes seider way worse.
Ned was a great pick up, he played well last year, this year has been tough but that's goalies sometimes. The Chiarot signing was the biggest question mark.
Didn't mean to quote all these for this response.