So did Durcy get a promotion from Asst GM? And the Coyotes have been drafting at the top for years, I'm not suprised to see them poke through eventually. Especially with the way Max Domi has risen up the charts. We are less than 10 pts out of the playoffs and have lost the most 1 goal games of any team by far. I don't pretend to like GMTM, but to say he's going to trade good players just because he didn't draft them is also wrong.
- RhinoFan

If you believe that Darcy has no input on how that team is being built with all of the experience he has, you are one naive human being.
Darcy was handcuffed for years by OWNERSHIP and still had this team competitive, and almost winning the cup if not for "No goal".
Many of you are so misguided and ignorant when it comes to the job that Darcy actually did here under the circumstances and restraints that were imposed upon him.
Get a clue.

This is what Cabin calls "crapping up the thread."
- Der Kaiser

Just par for the course. As my dad used to say "someone is much to impressed with themselves."

Lets move the whinefest to the new thread.

If you believe that Darcy has no input on how that team is being built with all of the experience he has, you are one naive human being.
Darcy was handcuffed for years by OWNERSHIP and still had this team competitive, and almost winning the cup if not for "No goal".
Many of you are so misguided and ignorant when it comes to the job that Darcy actually did here under the circumstances and restraints that were imposed upon him.
Get a clue.
- BuffaloHardHat

You need to calm down. watch the blood pressure . Most of the players there already belonged to the Franchise before Darcy got there.

Weak tea.
- Der Kaiser

Something you certainly know much about.

Which in it of itself was a douchebag move with loser ( I give up )mentality written all over it because beady eyed douche Murray couldn't assemble a team the way Genius , REAL GM's build their teams.
I never "embraced the tank" .
I'm not that guy that wants a woman that just throws her legs up in the air.
That shows weakness and desperation and Murray wreaks of all of those qualities and why I dislike his weak ass even more so.
Anyone that would argue that it only showed intelligence must like things handed to them as well, and not earn them.
Tanking is not earning, only in a quitters world it is.
- BuffaloHardHat

than you are not desperate enough for a championship. You were just saying over 40yeara of the same old with buffalo sports. So now a gm comes along and tries something new and proven and your all upset about it??

Murray was the guy who chose to ice the worst team in the league last season.

Kept Pysyk down
Traded goalies
Kept Grigo and Armia down who were arguably better than some of the misfits that were here.
Kept Nolan


So the onus is on him to begin with. He then made a bevy of moves to improve the current roster. With those moves we have moved exactly 1 spot in the standings. We aren't scoring very much, and don't get great goaltending.

Yes, there will be more moves made, yes Eichel will get better, as will Reinhart. The question becomes how much better? Is it enough to go from 29th to 1st when it's all said and done? That's where my questions lie. Unfortunately, Murray has left himself with few outs

The Kaiser HardHat feud makes Pachla's blog comments a must read on Sunday morning.

Some may call it "crapping up the threads", but I think this is when it is finally getting good. How much fun would this be if everyone agreed?

Murray was the guy who chose to ice the worst team in the league last season.

Kept Pysyk down
Traded goalies
Kept Grigo and Armia down who were arguably better than some of the misfits that were here.
Kept Nolan


So the onus is on him to begin with. He then made a bevy of moves to improve the current roster. With those moves we have moved exactly 1 spot in the standings. We aren't scoring very much, and don't get great goaltending.

Yes, there will be more moves made, yes Eichel will get better, as will Reinhart. The question becomes how much better? Is it enough to go from 29th to 1st when it's all said and done? That's where my questions lie. Unfortunately, Murray has left himself with few outs
- sbroads24

Very well explained.

I am no Murray sympathizer, but I will give him my best defense.

Everyone agreed that the core was rotten and we needed out with the old and in with the new. Every fan wanted change and Murray did his best to establish a new core by making trades for young talented players. You don't have the luxury of waiting around to see if other players may become available for more reasonable asking prices. Or get lucky in Free Agency. You have to strike when the iron is hot, and when there are other GMs competing against you to trade for the player you have to overpay to get the trade done.

No one could have seen the sudden drop in production from Mo uhh lson and Ennis. They were both able to score the past two years with much worse linemates. Signing Moulson to that contract was not a mistake at the time when you account for his goal production on a bad team, and style of play, he was scoring around the net which is how goals are scored nowadays, and he doesn't take a beating. He is not that old that it should have been expected that his game wpuld fall so far off of what it had been.

If anyone knows Lehner it is Murray, he has seen him play and obviously felt it was in our best interest to acquire him and legwand for that price. Legwand has been a solid defensive player this year, has contributed on the score sheet appropriately considering his minutes, and is a leader and a solid guy in the locker room. And we have not given Lehner a chance to succeed so we should not attack the GM for this trade. Again he overpayed because ottowa didn't want to trade him in the same conference.

As far as anything else Murray has done, he did it to ensure we would get at least Eichel in the last draft. And considering he looks every bit of the generational talent that he was touted and we expected in these past games, I think Tim Murray did the most important part of his job right.

He made sure we got Eichel. He added young talented top line players to the roster. He brought in the best coach that was amenable to coaching here.

But the McNabb trade still sucks, I can't defend that.

This is what Cabin calls "crapping up the thread."
- Der Kaiser