why does ANA do that?
The second problem with that trade is Sullivan. And you know. The whole team knows it. It is a multifactor issue. It's him, Crosby etc.. If you have a guy taking penalties, it digs into his playing time. It pulls your star player off the ice. So they kill it before it even starts. It's a whole leadership issue.
Even though it should be done.
The reality is we don't need a "stick up for" guy, we need an instigator. You don't win going after the goon. You never will. They take out your good player so you go after their goon. You lose. Already. Doesn't even matter what you do to the goon. You have already lost.
You need a guy willing to go after their star players. Their difference makers. Who cares if they didn't do anything, go after them. That's how you do something about it.
Is he that guy. Not really. If what you want to do is end the goonery, you bring someone in who is dirty, not the stand up for guy. The other guy don't care.
I think Mark Madden is right. Sullivan will either change, or he'll be gone. That's really what it comes down to. You need to be willing to just say it. Go after their best players.
Do they trust McCann enough to fill that role consistently?
I like Faska, I might make that trade, But that's not what it boils down to. It boils down to does it help them win to trust McCann on the win full time, and then where do his minutes come from.
18,18,15 is what you are looking at right now. The top two lines aren't getting less time. 7-9 minutes is what is left. The only way to add time to that 3rd line is to take it off the Buzzsaw line. Does that make you a better team? Buzzsaw line gets most of it's starts in the Dzone, they flip possession and are outscoring the other team 5v5 on the ice. Not by a huge margin, but they are outscoring them. On top of it, that's the other teams best players they are doing that to. Do you want to take that off the ice? What's it worth to take that off the ice? I don't think this team is trying to build a 3rd line. I know fans have wanted to see that. They are trying to build a 4th line.
As for the MP trade, MTL probably declines. If Chiarot resigns it's basically a lateral move. They didn't lose in the bubble due to MTL. They lost because you asked an older team to come out and play good hockey after a long break of doing nothing. That was never gonna happen. They had such bad coaching on top of it, they were shooting themselves in the foot the whole time. Benching McCann for 41 year old statue PM. Sullivan is an idiot.