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Forum: Armchair-GMAug. 30, 2023 at 2:55 p.m.
Thread: Drafting one position lower
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Tintin</b></div><div>I agree, it's completely unfathomable that lineups like these didn't compete for playoff spots between the 2016 - 2021 period.
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No team would be the least bit competitive if they had to suffer the goaltending the Devils had to experience in the 21-22 season (especially so when Jack Hughes is out injured half the season and Hamilton plays with a fractured jaw for 25 games or so)..
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Every single piece of the Devils "lottery luck" in 2017, 2019 and 2022 has been fully earned by the miserable state Lamoriello left the team in.
As Red Wings fan I'm sure you can sympathize with that given how Holland handled Detroit from 2010 and onward...

Would you please clarify to me how winning the lottery 3 times allowed Fitzgerald to:
- completely reshape the D corps
- develop late round picks like Bratt, Zetterlund, Sharangovich, Bastian and Schmid into key contributors of varying degrees
- flipping picks, prospects and roster players for impact players like Meier, Toffoli, Vanecek, Marino, Graves and Siegenthaler
... and still maintain a top 5 prospect pool in the league.
How does that work exactly?

I mean, what's stopping Yzerman from doing exactly that (as opposed to commiting 26.5m of his cap dollars to elite names such as Vrana, Chiarot, Copp, Compher, Husso and Holl)?</div></div>

This was an absolutely hilarious waste of your time. None of your bullsh*t replaces the fact that you tanked deliberately for years and the league rewarded you for it. Someday you'll have to waste half a page describing why you " earned" all those lottery wins from the 6 spot over the teams and their fan bases that finished lower than you. What a self justifying pile of crap. Your management group didn't do anything extraordinary except tank to win the lottery. And its the absolute height of arrogance to pretend that somehow your team did something that no one else can do. There's nothing worse than someone whose been ridiculously lucky bragging about how good they are when they didn't earn it. Just be happy you got the players you did and enjoy your team. Don't act you did something special to get here.
Forum: Armchair-GMAug. 9, 2023 at 1:45 a.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 24, 2023 at 4:27 a.m.
Thread: Completing the offseason
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Farabee</b></div><div>Think thats the thing that gets lost on here sometimes. Briere doesn't want to move TK, but hes just listening incase he gets that crazy offer he's talking about. As said in this thread, a 2025 1st and Berggren isn't bad value at all. Berggren is awesome and I'd love him, but Briere just isn't gonna move TK unless he gets a shocking offer that he cant pass on</div></div>

Yeah that's fair. And i didnt mean any offense. I just think that this is a really good offer. I think Albert Johansson is a better prospect than you're allowing here but we'll see. I think you guys should trade Konecny eventually as he doesn't fit your timeline anymore. I'm just not sure you'll get a better offer than a mid 1st and two really good prospects.
Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 11, 2023 at 6:32 a.m.
Thread: The team yzerman inherited
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>aedoran</b></div><div>25 straight years of buying at the TDL is what left us with a decimated prospect pool. Detroit probably could've started the rebuild a couple of seasons earlier but they wanted Mr. Ilitch's last memory of the team to be a good one.</div></div>

Ehh, I think that's the common narrative but I think that let's Holland off too easy. Also, Tyler Wright was pretty bad at drafting. Just look at 2015. The rebuild should have started no later than 2013. Holland didn't even refer it as a rebuild until 2017. He also made a series of horrible trades, contract signings and roster decisions. Not to mention keeping Babcock around when it was clear free agents were avoiding us because of him. Kenny simply didn't want to be part of a rebuild. Hence his departure.
Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 11, 2023 at 4:19 a.m.
Thread: The team yzerman inherited
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Lancebmx</b></div><div>You have been hanging onto this for awhile lol</div></div>

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Spaceman</b></div><div>God that defence….no wonder Detroit was the worst team in the league. Best d man was an over the hill Mike green</div></div>

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Ffmorgan09</b></div><div>And peole don’t understand why yzerman hasn’t turned Detroit into a dynasty with 3 cups by now.</div></div>

Lol, there only two players from this roster still around. Man this was awful. Holland and his " quick retool" left us with no prospect pool and a mostly worthless overpaid roster. It's a miracle we're as good as we are now. And Yzermans draft picks have only played about 200 games and that's all Seider and Raymond.