You literally spew bullshit from both sides man. You trash so many of our players and say they suck, yet you think we can trade them and get other teams players because they have a need at that position. Well we had a need at RW and C. We took other teams crap. How’s that work out for us? You are always the first one to say we can’t trade picks, but then also say we need to get all these other players who would require us trading picks and prospects. So which is it? Do our players suck but are good enough to get great players from other teams? Do we not trade picks and prospects to try and win now, but then piss and moan when the team is incomplete and the windows keep closing on our chances to win because we don’t make the moves? You can’t be half in and half out. THAT is why this team hasn’t won shit since 1994. You are either looking to win a Cup within the next 3-5 years and go all in and then realize you’ll have to rebuild after the run, or you rebuild now looking for a run in the future. You can’t do both. Seriously. For years you have spewed this bullshit about this prospect being can’t miss and that prospect being can’t miss, you say this guy on our team is trash and that guy on our team is trash, and then you say we need player X from this team but we can’t give up our prospects (who seem to rarely ever pan out like you claim they will) because that will affect our future but the team that has player X would be more than happy to have our trash guys. I just laugh at your posts because they are typically so insanely hypocritical that one MUST laugh at them and you because if we don’t then we may be forced to take you serious and realize how clueless you are in this salary cap era.
you mention the salary cap as if we all don’t know how it works. Due to the salary cap windows close MUCH quicker now than ever before and unless the NHL does something similar to the NBA which allows you to go over the cap to resign your own guys, a winning team is going to have to go all in and mortgage the future if they are only a few pieces away, or they can just blow it up and rebuild. That is the ONLY way you can do it in today’s NHL with this salary cap. But please, tell us more about how great of a move Wennberg and Roslovic (who missed a WIDE open net) are. Oh and let’s not forget the ever important 8th dman that Drury traded for.
Oh, and that Edmonton argument might be the DUMBEST argument ever. They have had HOW MANY top picks? How many guys on the roster are top 10 picks? That is not a team that has to build and wait and wait and wait for guys to come up. They underperformed for YEARS with that group.
Dump is who he is. Whatever argument makes the point he is trying to make that specific day is what he goes with. For literally years he has talked about prospects, and kids, yet where are they? Lafreniere was a # 1 overall pick, who else? Miller is very good. We have busts all over the place, as do most teams when they are drafting lower in the 1st round. Where are all the kids in the prospects threads we read about year after year.
You cannot go half in and half out and build a team with picks in the mid 20's and lower. And not only does Edmonton have a ton of top high picks, they also were lucky enough to draft # 1 in the year of an all-time generational player, and even still they hadn't made the SCF until this season, despite all those top picks and an all-time great.
I'll tell you something else, what the Rangers did a few years back after the letter is another reason to truly go for it. They were able to turn around players who had their moment, into picks and prospects for the future. We got Lindgren in the Nash trade for example.
The salary cap in the NHL is so restrictive, you need to take you shot when you can. The Rangers are in their window right now. What do you think happens when Igor wants $12M after next season? Or Lafreniere wants a big raise? This is the time; this summer we have to take our shot. Take a risk, shake it up. If you cannot get Zibanejad or East West to waive their NMC (preferably Zibanejad), then I would absolutely look at dealing Fox for a haul of the type of players we need, gritty, tough, hard to play against, not all finesse and pretty and soft in big spots. You lose skill and finesse, but gain what the team needs to win, and it isn't more skill and finesse.
Is it a risk, sure is, but one that has to be taken because bringing back all the top core players is a waste of time for everyone, because it has been proven they aren't good enough. There is no other choice if you want to win a Cup. At least one, if not two of the top core guys have got to go this summer. Trade skill and finesse for strength, grit, and size is what is needed this summer. If not, we'll be right back here next year saying the same thing. We can bump all our posts again and save time.
