Darch absolutely failed. No rush to trade Dobson for subpar return unless Roy demanded it.

POST TITLE Darche failed. Who care what Dobson wants, New York owned his rights for the next year, you qualify him, left him go to arbitration, and play here with his one year prove-it contract. You don't move him for two picks in a weak draft, and a third liner traded twice already. They likely get more in what is expected to be a better draft class, and at the deadline they likely get another top prospect like Lamoriello got for Nelson. Roy? Instead of firing Roy with Lamoriello, he never gave his season ending press conference, he's owed years/money on his contract, and likely had enough of Dobson so owners saved across the board. No paying Roy to stay home, no paying Dobson, and the new VP/gm likely costs less although they did pay for Bowness, and Martin. That's how I see it. My thoughts on Roy being a bad coach have been written here often, his odd post-game comments were infuriating but team cut shots against, and they did work as

hard as limitations permitted in the group. I absolutely think Roy told Darche we can do without Dobson, when like Lou said, use the time. Now they have no scoring at RD. It easily could have come down to Roy saying Dobson goes or I go. He's walked before, and looked exhausted with all fight gone in him that he was advertised to bring even early in his tenure last season. Now Dobson plays in front of 20k every night and 1/2 of Habs fans will be at Belmont to cheer for him.