Quoting: dannibalcorpse
damn, did Lou piss in your cornflakes or something? every GM is gonna look out of touch if you just cherry pick the bad moves. for example: trading a 1st & two 4ths for 11 games of Nick Foligno (& one from Stefan Noesen, I guess), trading a 3rd for 4 David Rittich games, signing Petr Mrazek to 3x$3.8M and having to trade out of the 1st round to dump his deal after one season, swapping Mason Marchment for Denis Malgin (8 GP, 0 points), having to attach a 1st to Patrick Marleau to dump his deal.
Sounds like a terrible GM and not a guy who built a 115 point team when you do that, doesn't it?
Yes those were terrible moves (other than marchment and marleau those were fine moves) by dubas who's been slipping lately.
What has Lou done right? I'm sorry but bridging young players to give money to plugs isn't a recipe for success.
Marleau was Lou's fault and marchment was moved to give him a chance to play, he deserved better than spending another year in the marlies.
Mrazek was a flub, but I didn't hate the signing at the time.
Foligno was an absolute garbage move. Worthy of Lou.
Rittich was fine. We needed another goalie. Not sure what your issue is.
Things you missed:
1. Keeping broken Muzzin and letting the Sandin situation get out of control
2. Weak deadline moves. Just in general never gets that top 6 lW we always need.
3. Piss poor offseason, getting pillaged by the sens for murray, going after multiple cheap depth instead of the one player we needed.
Dubas is far from perfect. But Lou put his thumb in his ass the whole offseason.