Post by Jack Bauer on Feb 26, 2024 12:49:56 GMT -4
After years at the bottom this was supposed to be a stretch of "setting the table" for next season.
We bought the following veterans for this season:
Charles-Antoine Lavallee for an 11th rounder
Zach Biggar for a 2nd+3rd. He had more production at 17 then he does here as an overage captain.
Tomas Cibulka for 2 2nd rounders (where is the offense?)
Cam MacDonald for 2 2nd rounders where basically every stat is worse then last season when both on a rebuilding team and on a contender.
Rather then finish say bottom 5 last year and end up in that Bathurst/Charlottetown area of the standings this year we paid a ton of valuable assets to be less then 10 points up on those teams. While we're also 10+ points from the top 5.
Sly has made some bad deals in that he's brought in rentals who havent produced up to par minus 1 guy we brought in from the local Jr A league for an 11th rounder. The league vets with expectations? Basically all disappoint.
And I managed to do that without even bringing up the big pre-season addition who has 1 more goal then I do over the last few months.
But you can't discuss flaws without certain people jumping in and making excuses so if this keeps up and leads to a round 1 exit I look forward to hearing about how its all perfectly on track for next season.
The guys I focused in on were brought in with no intention beyond this season as they'll be too old or not fit here as an overager.
Romeo has been a very solid addition. But he himself hasn't changed the culture or led us to any success or boosted us to a level we had not yet seen this season. We expected that if getting suprise production from someone like him it means we're doing really well. But the guys I noted not playing up to par has meant Romeo's production has simply kept us where we've been which as a team is still a disappointment.