By: Ron Spence

Ron Spence — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:26:13 +0000

Thanks for your observation.
He can’t trade any of the future because he doesn’t have any.
He has to decide who to keep and who to trade.
He has kept his core group. Should he trade one of them for Heatley?
It seems that he needs leadership and chemistry and I don’t think Heatley is the guy to bring that to the Sharks.
I think that Doug put together a very good team last season – at considerable expense to the Sharks’ future.
But, they lacked the character and leadership to push them over the top.
And his expensive goalie and D were allowing Anaheim to score 3 goals a game.

By: David

David — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:22:54 +0000

My initial reaction to your article is simply, keen sense of the office, you outline his trades and the rating of the team from futures, but make no real comment. You say he has very little future to trade but make no suggestion as to what he should do or what others have done given the same situation. I know writers are suppose to stay neutral and just report, but bringing in Lemieux et al after all the horse trading was like getting to the top of Mt. everest and wondering what to do! He should have retrenched and planned out the last few moves at the time, then made the moves to get over the top top. Doug got them to the top but just had not planned on what to do when they got there.That is when the real horse trading starts. D

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