Notes de feuille : Kyle Dubas se penche sur sa « plus grosse erreur » dans un nouveau livre
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HealthyScratch12
@Maple Leafs de Toronto
Notes de feuille : Kyle Dubas se penche sur sa « plus grosse erreur » dans un nouveau livre
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HealthyScratch12
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“**The biggest mistake I think I’ve made in my whole time here has been not taking care of the three incumbent contracts**,” Dubas told Custance. “(William) Nylander was up, (Mitch) Marner and (Auston) Matthews could have been done on July 1 extensions.”
Dubas laments not making more progress on all of those before Tavares, though he did talk to the trio about the impact winning the J.T. sweepstakes would have on their future standing.
“**The thing I learned was once we signed John to the (AAV) we did, it lifted the lid on the entire ceiling**,” he said.
Dubas will be a fantastic GM after being handed the keys to a Ferrari in our most crucial moment and fucking it up. He’s probably learned a lot. We went from geezer to newbie, was there no middle ground?
Cheers pal.
It’s kind of crazy that no one in the organization brought this up to him. Like it’s so obvious you use the leverage of tavares coming to sign better contracts for marner and matthews. Ultimately it’s the failure of him and shanahan.
It’s wild that as soon as we drafted players to make us a real contender we gave the keys to the franchise to a rookie GM and then a rookie coach.
Literally gave them the opportunity to make mistakes and then cut ties when they could start learning from them.
As much as Dubas and Keefe are responsible for the lack of results, the org who decided to hire them also bare that responsibility. Shanny needed to be gone with Dubas
What about the guy who made 2 GM changes at the 2 most pivotal moments in this era?
Throwing a rookie gm into the fire when those extensions were up and firing said GM to maintain the status quo
Tavares’ contract should have had nothing to do with how much Marner and Matthews made.
They were RFA, he was UFA. I don’t think there were any other RFA’s at that point who were making comparable money to UFA signings.
He changed the market on that and I remember stories coming about other GMs being pissed
My biggest mistake was getting absolutely embarrassed by three 20 something-year-olds who hadn’t won a single thing, all demanding and getting TOP 10 league salaries at the expense of actually winning anything. »
um. this book is gonna be a best seller.
Tavares situation is irrelevant. Ufa’s are always overpaid.
This is no excuse for giving 11 million a year to rfa’s who have done nothing in the playoffs.
Dubas is still clueless and doesn’t realize the team has all the power with rfa’s.
I think the biggest mistake was letting a new GM handle those huge contracts. Shanahan is the one to blame here.
Looking back, the biggest mistake was never being able to stabilize goaltending
Obviously you’d like better contracts aka cheaper contracts and the unforeseeable pandemic affecting the cap, when you look back at the carousel that continues to today that included Freddie Andersen (good ’til the end), Jack Campbell, Michael Hutchinson, Calvin Pickard, Curtis McElhinney, Kasikisuo, David Rittich, Garret Sparks, Peter Mrazek, Matt Murray, Ilya Samsonov, Joseph Woll and probably a few more I’m missing it simply was never a good situation.
Generally speaking we’ve had around 6M in goaltending every year during his tenure, and there was some wiggle room to spend more, like when they had Murray/Samsonov. If the rumours were true about goalies like Saros and Hellebuyck being available, I would have much preferred spending a 1st ++ on them instead of Foligno or O’Reilly who inevitably walked
You could also argue keeping Keefe too long, but considering their relationship, I don’t think Dubas had the heart to fire him
How does some mid GM that hasn’t really accomplished anything of note “write” a book while being paid millions to do what one would expect is a high pressure, 24/7 kind of job?
Is this a parody? Life wtf if going on, why would his current employer let him release a book about his last job?
Getting but raped by marner was the mistake.
Nice to see him own it.
Disappointed to see the pandemic excuse trotted out again by people in his orbit. Other teams did not make this mistake.