Article: The Wild Might Still Be Playing With One Hand Behind Their Back Next Year

[Tom Schreier]

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[Citizen Strife]

Any article that paints Addison in any sort of positive light is an immediate,"WTF" from me

[Citizen Strife]

Getting the absurdity of playing Beckman and Addison out of the way., the point of the article was "tank."

That is fine in theory, but would that have sit well with Kap?  I don't really know.  Montreal and Ottawa got bounced in the same round as the Wild with their homegrown "talent.". The "Yzerplan" has yet to launch in Detroit.  Buffalo...well, uh.  We don't need to go there.

Also, it took Edmonton 20 years to get their two rebuilds to work cause Hall/RNH/Yakupov wasn't it.  There are probably as many examples of failed tanks as good ones.

 

 

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Nuge was 1st overall for EDM

[FredJohnson]

2023: Charlie Stramel (21th) is 6-foot-3, 215 lbs.

He’s heavy enough to play for Billy.

[MrCheatachu]

Last offseason the Nashville Predators made a huge splash in signing  Steven Stamkos ($8Mx4), Jonathan Marchessault ($5.5Mx5) and Brady Skjei ($7x7) in free agency.

The Nashville predators finished second to last in the central last season, only ahead of the Blackhawks.

Signing high dollar free agents isn't going to guarantee success if they dont fit into what you're trying to build.

It'll be interesting to see what SillyG does with the new found cap freedom, but spending like a drunken sailor on pay-day isn't going to guarantee success.

[mnhockeyfan03]

Billy needs to think outside the box with big trades to make the team better.  Only free agents to go after are Ehlers and Bennett but at the right price and I doubt Bennett leaves Florida 

[Pewterschmidt]

they're fighting with one hand tied between their back because of these cap restraints. 

“We don't apologize for it. We're fine with it."

This is bill's fatal flaw.  it's ok for him to think he can have it both ways (tell players there's no excuses, then make it an excuse OUT LOUD to a reporter), but he's too dense to understand that he undermines all his One Team United Grit dogma when he whines to reporters out loud.

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[SkolWild73]

These are 3 examples of teams that tanked or were bad enough to get the top picks in the draft  and did well, and maybe it would have worked out for us.  But Edmonton and Pittsburgh were able to draft McDavid and Crosby, who will both go down as possibly top 5 players of all time.  So many other teams have had high draft picks and didn’t help them because there were not generational talents at the top of the draft.  Were there any McDavids or Crosbys in the last 5 drafts?  

[Dean]

Great article. Spot on Getting bounced year after year in 1 st round isn’t worth the half ass draft picks Billy got. A bunch of dented cans that can’t win a round . Undersized weak gutless golfers is Judds claim to fame.  What prospects does Billy have coming that can play the hard playoff style  hockey ? None . Hell he thinks his 9 th overall is soft yet he drafted him. We would be in a better place if we had sold at the trade deadline an accumulated  better assets. Instead of giving the worst analytical player another year to prove in playoffs he doesn’t deserve to be on this team Fred g .  They weren’t going in the playoffs to give experience to their youth. They instead give Billy’s drinking/ golf buddies a chance to make fools of themselves and prove weak , soft and lazy doesn’t win sh-t 

   How can anyone take Billy seriously when Fred and Jo Jo  are still on roster after buyouts  do you watch playoff hockey and see size skill and physicality is needed to win rounds. ?  Is a Fred g line going to matchup to anyone? Hell no. Is lazy Jo Jo going to score you bigs goals in playoffs. Hell no . What are Fred and Jo Jo going to do.? Take roster spots an opportunity from others who actually want to try hard and win . 
  The Billy lovers need to explain how putting Rossi on 4 th line was good. This idea he was defensively lacking when Fred g was a flipping speed bump the entire playoffs is a joke . Then the fact putting him on 4 th line just made a bridge deal impossible because Rossi can’t trust management anymore, is somehow good. That’s crazy. Billy’s a fraud. Judd drafts small statured dented cans to compete against men . Hynes is a proven loser and Iowa can’t win anything. But that’s ok to the wild. It’s not about winning they say it’s about developing.  Yeah lambos fits that idea. 
  The wild are a joke and so are all the excuses. This was supposed to be a big offseason yet it’s going to turn out to be Billy’s incompetence on full display with no excuses to fall back on. 

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Of course Dean likes this article. He is a dipshit just like the author is.

[Burnt Toast]

Kaprizov is essentially a first overall talent. The team will be built around him. The play now is value contract additions. Wild management has done a fantastic job of locking up value long term contracts. The upcoming ELC contracts with top rated prospects have a lot of potential as well. It’s not talked about a lot but Gus Bus is a big reason for the Wild’s success. Getting him at a decent AAV should be a priority.