MaxR11
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A realistic discussion about an absurd hypothetical. OK sure.
LMAO wut
I'm as pessimistic as anyone and a three-four year rebuild is preposterous to me. I don't think they turn it around completely next year but they should be in a better spot in about two years time with further cap increases. Dump a couple of bad deals (Lucic and Russell) and there's a lot more room to work with. Plus you'll have McDavid and Drai hitting their primes at that point. The GM just has to stop losing trades and rewarding character veterans with overstuffed deals.
He hasn't even played a single game under his new deal; perhaps you can see why people would think this discussion is grossly premature.
Is it just Edmonton fans that think players will bail at the first sign of adversity? Is this PTSD from Pronger?
Stamkos made the playoffs once in his first five years. Same with Tavares. Taylor Hall was part of a losing team here and was gutted to leave. If anything, most hockey players, especially stars, are loyal to a fault. So what's the point of even speculating?
It better not be another 3-4 yr rebuild. Hopefully this year was a bit of a stall and that the team not only adds a little bit in the offseason and gets everyone playing a lot better and more consistent as a team. Fortunately, I believe, intangibles can really make a team a lot better because it'll be hard to improve the talent on this team very much unless guys like yamamoto or pooly come out of nowhere and take an enormous step forward. We HOPE Drai learns to be a good dominant consistent player (on his own away from Connor) in the next year or two but we'll have to see. I'm not fully sold on him. Great talent when on his game but he's looked a bit of a shell of himself too often this year.