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Todd Cordell
There is still time for teams to make moves and improve but for me it is the Anaheim Ducks.
Their forward core was gutted with Jamie McGinn, David Perron, Brandon Pirri, Chris Stewart and Mike Santorelli, among others, walking away for nothing and the team didn't really replace any of them.
Their only notable additions were a couple players who were bought out, one of which (Jared Boll) is among the worst players in the NHL.
On top of losing a lot of quality players - and adding none - the team fired one of the very best coaches in the NHL and replaced him with, well, not one of the very best coaches in the NHL.
Honorable mention goes to Montreal for overpaying a good 3rd liner and trading the team's franchise player for a guy who is already on the decline.
Jason Lewis
Eh, a lot of teams didn't do well. Anaheim is one that stands out to me though that did incredibly poor. They are in kind of a precarious position, where they have a very good young group, but an aging group of core forwards that don't have very much support.
It's kind of the same old story with the Ducks: This team gets as far as Getzlaf and Perry will take them. Year after year they do not make very many moves to support those two, and year after year they tend to fall when those two go into struggle mode.
The took a flier on Bernier and Mason Raymond, while grabbing Nate Guenin and Jared Boll as their big offseason acquisitions so far. Pirri walked, Stewart walked, they dealt Anderson in favor of Gibson (Which time will tell if that was the right move), they have yet to deal one of their MANY MANY defensive prospects for any forward help, and they still sit on largely the same roster as previous years.
They did not get better, you could almost argue they got worse, and have still for the life of me not gone out and acquired any legitimate top 6 forward help.
Max Jones at 24 may be the highlight of the offseason (Considering some had him going in the early teens.)
OH, and on top of all that, they fired one of the best coaches in the NHL only to bring in an old retread who struggled in his final years with Anaheim and in the years following.
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