JoemAvs
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- Jul 2, 2011
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I'm at the point where I think the core has to be blown up....at a complete minimum, two of Landeskog, Duchene, MacKinnon, Barrie, Varly or Johnson has to be moved. These dogs don't have any fight left in them as a core. I'd find it hard to believe they actually look each other in the eye anymore after games.
Remember when Foote would throw the reporters out of the locker-room and hold a players only meeting after a bad game? That's the kind of stuff that happens when a team expects to win. This is a team at the upper end of the salary cap that doesn't expect to win.
I'm not saying they need to be moved for conditional picks...but if the plan isn't to move at a minimum at least 2 of these players, the AVs will never get better. Each one of these players have value...they just aren't super-stars or leaders. Individually, they each could return some nice things...packaged....a couple could even get something special.
This team is completely neutered though...there is not an ounce of will left. And it will only get worse over time.
I also agree with those that say the secondary players aren't good enough...but that's no excuse. Yes, they suck....but that doesn't excuse the abysmal performance of the core.
That is called selling ridiculously low right now.
I don't buy into the garbage about "do not have what it takes to win".
I mean we made the playoffs the year after we picked at #1 overall thanks to Varly, Mac and most of these top guys when we really had no business doing so (and Roy certainly was not the "mastermind" that did it. Duchene did so under Sacco as well).
What we need is way more talent (aka a way better roster and the added confidence that comes with winning. Look at that fluke division win. The Sacco stench came off quickly even if it only was a fluke. Confidence certainly helped with it . So will the Roy stench once we finally get some talent in).
"Superstars or leaders"....
Are those guys McDavid or Crosby? No. But we kind of knew that before, didn't we?
Could Kane and Toews drag this pathetic roster anywhere if you swap them with Mac/Duchene and Landeskog?
Hell no. They would be branded as perenial losers by now if they were on the Avs.
This roster is just pathetic. Complete garbage. Like most of the time since 2007 or so.
The big difference to the Roy/Sacco glory years is that goaltending finally is not bailing them out game after game.
I mean even when we won the division I felt that we had no business winning those games 70% of the time.
We have the worst roster in the league top to bottom.
If you start trading the few bright spots because they simply are not inhumane and can't drag the garbage anywhere, things will get worse and not better.