You want changes (and so do a lot of people) but have no idea how to go about making those, mostly because no one wants/can afford the player you want to get rid of. So how do the changes get made? That's the problem. They kind of can't.
IMO a big step in the right direction (and the only reason I chimed in) would be a perma-ban on the concept that "this team is good enough to make the playoffs" until they ACTUALLY make the playoffs.
It's one thing when a team is clinging to the 8th seed and lose their red-hot 1C for the rest of the season, narrowly finishing outside the bubble. In that case it's understandable to play the "what if" game and feel like the breaks just weren't there. But this idea that the Carolina Hurricanes are a playoff team
if only both the Staals, Skinner, Semin, Ward, and all the defensemen could stay healthy and not have slumps... seriously, that kind of talk needs to go away and not come back. This group of players has proven absolutely nothing that would give them the benefit of the doubt. It's a fundamentally flawed roster, several of these guys haven't played up to their reputations and it should be a given that they're
not going to make the playoffs until they step up and show differently. That's a fundamental change in organizational attitude, a 180 degree pivot that this franchise has made with all the agility of a jumbo-jet trying to do a 3-point turn.
