bballsparkin wrote:gp2015 wrote:Why do they keep returning the same core team and hope that the results will be different?
It's like if the Raptors doubled down on the Demar/Lowry duo for the next 5 years in hopes that the results would change.
Hard cap. I feel the Leafs made a mistake signing Tavares. He's a good player but wasn't needed at the price tag his pay comes with you. Freddy Anderson was a decent goalie and didn't cost that much. I liked Kadri too. He was a good value contract and helped the Avs hoist the cup.
New GM though. He needs to time to manoeuvre the cap situation. Losing Hyman hurt too. He's a gamer. Sad reality of the hard cap.
Hyman's deal won't age well, but he makes about what Brodie makes. This was management thinking he was overrated, when it turned out he was very underrated, and that management is gone now.
I'm not freaking out over a game 1, but Marner doesn't look right and last year was largely invisible in the playoffs. If Nylander and Marner are both battling health issues, it's not really the fault of management to get beat by a very strong Boston team.
Personally I think it will take a few years to clean up Dubas' legacy. Matthews, Nylander and Marner will all be expensive, but necessary to maintain any kind of credible team going forward. Tavares is likely a trade with salary retained in the off-season, Marner given a lucrative extension, and then they can rebuild around the margins. The mistake was this "our window is now" mindset making all these bad deadline trades. If Marner is retained there's still a good 4-5 years to make their run.