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Op, you named 8 guys we should keep... you've done nothing but ***** about how awful we were this year, though we technically are still in the playoff race until the last week (yes, I'm fully aware they aren't going to make it). So please explain to me how keeping 8 guys and dumping off everybody else we can is going to make this team any better next year? I'd fully expect us to be sitting full out in the basement if they did that.
Exactly who do you think they're going to bring in to play with those 8 guys that's going to turn everything around over night? Or would you just be settling for mediocrity as the favorite saying around here goes, for a year or two until everybody happily clicked?
This is the 4th youngest team in the NHL at 26.5 years old, most of these guys have not grown accustomed to what is expected of them at this point. Obviously some help is needed, particularly in veteran leadership. What possible good does it do to blow up such a young team (give me the "deep playoff run" BS all you want, these guys were 3rd and 4th liners on playoff teams where any extra scoring form them was a bonus, not a necessity) and "start fresh". We all knew it would be a step backwards this year, the hope was it'd be a step backwards for a year and then progress right back towards the top...
Of course, you'd know nothing of hope because everything is "please me right this second" with you. Your plan easily sets this team back 3-4 years at a minimum... you're going to tell me you wouldn't be *****ing up a storm over that period of time when they weren't contending?
I don't expect a real answer, just you telling me I'm wrong and a blind optimist, because that's the only rhetoric you know. Reply or not, it doesn't really matter as I'm not going to be sucked into another pointless argument with you... but I sure am curious to see what this master plan really entails.
Exactly who do you think they're going to bring in to play with those 8 guys that's going to turn everything around over night? Or would you just be settling for mediocrity as the favorite saying around here goes, for a year or two until everybody happily clicked?
This is the 4th youngest team in the NHL at 26.5 years old, most of these guys have not grown accustomed to what is expected of them at this point. Obviously some help is needed, particularly in veteran leadership. What possible good does it do to blow up such a young team (give me the "deep playoff run" BS all you want, these guys were 3rd and 4th liners on playoff teams where any extra scoring form them was a bonus, not a necessity) and "start fresh". We all knew it would be a step backwards this year, the hope was it'd be a step backwards for a year and then progress right back towards the top...
Of course, you'd know nothing of hope because everything is "please me right this second" with you. Your plan easily sets this team back 3-4 years at a minimum... you're going to tell me you wouldn't be *****ing up a storm over that period of time when they weren't contending?
I don't expect a real answer, just you telling me I'm wrong and a blind optimist, because that's the only rhetoric you know. Reply or not, it doesn't really matter as I'm not going to be sucked into another pointless argument with you... but I sure am curious to see what this master plan really entails.
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