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redking
A rebuild is 3 – 4 years for a good GM, 8 – 10 years for Holland.
jdgoat
That is not a pretty situation
Colemania87
Lots of over reacting.
Waally
Another factor is that it appears the players have not bought into the coaches plans or the coaching is just that bad. The players looked confused. Not one player on this team is improving, this too is on Holland. He was a great GM before the cap because money wasn’t an object….time for changes throughout the organization.
Houchens
One or two pure defenseman and the Wings would be right back in the game. Nothing wrong with goaltending except defense is missing too many rebounds. Need more physicality along the boards too.
John Higgins
They have to change the after game quote from “we have to do better ” to “we are better”. They can be better by playing more aggressive and physical in offence and defensive zones.
Dlec
Holland is a bad GM, but a nice guy. I met him once, couldnt have been kinder. That being said like wally pointed out, when there was no cap he was a great GM, but he just had to write checks to make a team of all stars. Now he’s overpaying guys because he has some sort of misguided loyalty that doesn’t work in the salary cap world. Cleary, helm, miller, erickson just to name a few while talented, hungry guys with the griffins rot on the vine or are lost for nothing because they run out of options to protect them from waivers. While guys with no upside (not going to name names) play on the 3rd & 4th line (or higher). Anyone could see the log jam going on with numbers this summer & then he would shell out too much money & term for someone who should be out the door because there isnt a spot left for them and there limited or obsolete talent. Except holland couldn’t see it. I still see the Cleary deal as the summarization of Holland as a GM. I couldn’t believe Philly offered the money & term length they did & then Holland says wings will basically match it, yikes.
The wing king
Holland is in over his head in this new cap era
The wing king
I think it would be in excusable to let holland stay as gm if he can’t get a decent haul of picks and prospects trading anyone other than AA mantha Larkin and mrazek . Their goaltending is not the problem it’s all defence
You improve defence goals against go down and if you can get the puck out of your zone (which they can’t do if their life depended on it ) then you have more opportunities for your scorers !!
Lastly the blasthill experiment is an epic fail wings all around players have gotten a lot worse under his watch
Hope we can get a real coach in the off season or snag Claude julien if Boston fires him