Stylizer1
SENSimillanaire
Well I was going to reply but I think everyone who has is 100% right. What I am sating is if you look around at the talent that is available to us right now considering what we have and don't want to give up, Spezza, no matter how farfetched an idea, could be that offensive guy to help the area's we are bad in. He is 34 so I'm not expecting a ppg and 20 minutes a night player. What I am expecting is a guy who can score you 15 goals and maybe 40+ assists. No one on this team has the ice vision he does. The Turris trade made us better skilled wise but we are still lacking another top forward. At this point this team needs to make a gamble and go for it. Adding Duchene though nice is still not that push. What Nashville did by adding Turris is the type of thing that shows you are going for it.WRONG. WRONG. WRONG.
For years while Spezza was here the argument I always made about why Spezza wasn't a true elite #1C was because he DOES NOT ever elevate the play of guys around him. Spezza is only as good as the guys he is playing with, and he does not have the leadership or play style which elevates the game of his line-mates.
You are wearing very rose colored glasses when it comes to Spezza. I liked the guy and thought he was a great player for us, but aside from terrible turnovers, Spezza's second worst attribute was that he was never able to make the guys around him better, and he lived and died by his line-mates.