I'm not 100% sold on Dach as a rebuilding prospect.
IMHO the only thing that makes Dach worth it to keep around is if he (a) becomes much better than 30% at the dot and thus could be a real, bonafied #1C or #2C (even 45% would be acceptable in that role), or he moves over to the wing and can play wing effectively using the rest of his skillset.
Right now though? He's only a point better than Kubalik who's slumping something fierce.
He may be young, but I don't think he's proven to be a piece we can build around--at least yet. We might have ruined him like Cam Barker. We might not have, but I think if we don't find a decent role for him anywhere in the top-6 we should be prepared to move on.
As for Toews, I think we have to let that one play out. In all fairness to Toews the last goal he scored that was taken away? He did everything right and the linesmen screwed him. I won't hold that against him at this point. I don't think he retires this offseason and leaves almost 7M on the table--especially since he's 33YO and he might not get another deal after he turns UFA. I agree that we might be able to flip him at next year's TDL, but I think we got him this year and next. But I do think if he's willing to waive and someone comes knocking we entertain the deal.
El Gato might have the most value, but if we're not getting a king's ransom he'll be worth more to the 'hawks than if we lose him. He *is* only 23. He *is* playing above his paygrade. He *should be* a de facto "A" on the team. He *is* our best player. So, if we're going to tear it all down we better be getting bank for him.
We shouldn't jettison him simply to "tear it down". We should only jettison him if the returning pieces really set us up for a real rebuild--and not in a "pay a mid-tier #1D man a fuckton of money for 8 years" type of move like the departed legume-reckoner did. Proposals can and should be entertained, but the 'hawks should be mindful of the returning value.
We’re on the same page we are just wording it differently.
Cat is the last person I would want gone on this team, but he has the most value. If somebody offers something stupid for him you really have to swallow your pride and consider it, consider this new retool a complete failure, and admit there needs to be a rebuild installed instead of fooling yourself which is what Blowman has done for how many years.
The time for a retool was when they had panarin. Once they traded him that’s when the rebuild should have started. It didn’t. And because of it this team is the drizzling shits. Blowman should have taken a team to the cleaners over Bread but he didn’t. He decided to put a wet bandage over an open wound and Rocky should have turfed his ass because of it. Now, the Hawks are in that “too good to be the Coyotes bad but too bad to make the playoffs” stage that’s worse then actually being a shit team because the hawks scouting department has a smartest guy in the room complex that more so then not wastes high draft picks.
If they took Byram over Dach, you are looking at the Jones trade not happening and if it still did you have your top pairing set for the next decade.
They had many better options then Bustvist yet still took him only so they look like great evaluators if he actually developed. I liked Walstrom and Dobson along with Miller a whole lot more then Bustvist and sure enough all of them are better.
Whomever the next GM is has to cut ties with Kelly.
