I heard it for the first time this morning. More of the same crap...injuries, adapting to new styles...etc.
Once again, his complete lack of humility makes him come across as a pompous arse.
He skirted the tough questions and on the face of it, basically said we're not trading anyone with an NTC. Hopefully that's just for public consumption and he does in fact have a plan to approach some of these players.
If not, our retool will simply consist of substituting the spare parts along the periphery of this team and we'll simply have to wait out for these contract with NTC's to expire in the next two or three years. At that point, these guys will simply just walk away as UFA's and we will not have received a thing for them, in which case, we should expect a long run of futility for this team.
I have no confidence in Gillis being able to make the hard decisions that need to be made for the good of this team. His player agent hat won't allow him.
He needs to be removed from the hockey operations side of the business so we can have someone with no ties to this team make the decisions that need to be made.