So far I've been less than impressed with the wunderkind after a year. I'll see how the off season goes but the first year was mostly failures, misses and obvious and avoidable dips*ittery.
I think he's restricted by FSG in that they want to win now in spite of the fact that they can't with a coach that is past his due date. I'd like to see how Dubas unleashed can do.
I wrestle with how true this is all the time. It sure seems like he may be restricted by FSG, but...look at what he left in Toronto. All the information out there is that he was often driven to do things by Shanahan and above.
Why on Earth would he bolt Toronto, only to come to Pittsburgh to put himself in a very similar situation? That just doesn't make sense for Dubas. Toronto was too controlling, so I'm leaving to go to Pittsburgh, where the owners are also too controlling?
Capitals just traded with Buffalo for the 43rd pick overall, right before our first pick. If I'm the Penguins, I'm looking to give up one of our 7ths or even our 6th round pick to try and move up some spots into earlier 2nd round. There are still 5 or 6 guys there with first round grades. Be a little aggressive and see if you can snag one of them, rather HOPING that a few of them fall to your pick.
The Kevin Hayes trade is puzzling. Eller produced more points than Hayes. Hayes is not a good skater. He has size. Haven't heard the return yet, but with a 7.1M cap hit this year and next, I think we either dumped Smith in this trade, or Dubas got a high draft pick to take on that salary. Hayes is also a lefty...when we really need a right handed center besides Acciari.
Didn't realize Philly was still retaining on Hayes. That helps, but I still don't understand the fit.
So far I've been less than impressed with the wunderkind after a year. I'll see how the off season goes but the first year was mostly failures, misses and obvious and avoidable dips*ittery.
I think he's restricted by FSG in that they want to win now in spite of the fact that they can't with a coach that is past his due date. I'd like to see how Dubas unleashed can do.
I wrestle with how true this is all the time. It sure seems like he may be restricted by FSG, but...look at what he left in Toronto. All the information out there is that he was often driven to do things by Shanahan and above.
Why on Earth would he bolt Toronto, only to come to Pittsburgh to put himself in a very similar situation? That just doesn't make sense for Dubas. Toronto was too controlling, so I'm leaving to go to Pittsburgh, where the owners are also too controlling?
I've never really thought of FSG as too controlling in other sports so maybe he thought they wouldn't be controlling to this extent. They have a reputation of "only players have a salary cap" mentality so Dubas might have thought he'd be given free reign to staff as he wants. He might have been surprised by the restrictions after the contract was signed.
