Yeah, that's the thing. Lack of prove (skilled) producers. You wouldn't call any of the above players skilled. They are grinders, agitators, face punchers, block heads, etc. Whatever you want to call them, they are not paid for their high end skills like Akeson or Varone or Perron. Hell, even Paul is just a big guy with limited skill set. He could fall into the blockhead category. As I mentioned, Stortini being scratched and Akeson coming on board was a breath of fresh air for this team.
I don't think you know what blockhead means... It's literally an insult that means to say someone has low intelligence... But apparently, that kind of insult is totally permitted on HF... as long as you don't tell the same thing to another poster! Because let's assume that ALL those REAL people (or someone in their family) that we insult 24/7 don't have an account on HF... But anyway, I guess it would be ok to call somebody a freaking ****** just because he doesn't have an account on HF. It makes absolutely no sense
Anyway, back to the subject, you can't have 10 "high end skill guys" on a team. It's literally impossible mainly because of money. Blunden and McCormick are good players at the AHL level, not PPG players but you know what? There's very few PPG players to begin with (most of them are called up to the NHL in a minute). I don't know enough about Rumble but he seems to score at a good rate as an AHL rookie D-man for a "face puncher". Sieloff was a 2nd round pick and like I said, drafted high because of shutdown ability. It's like if you were saying Phaneuf and Methot are blockheads and face-punchers... which is totally ridiculous..
So like me and other posters tried to explain you (and if we leave out the insult), only Stortini and maybe Lepine fit the bill that you were talking about as "face-punchers". One is scratched constantly and the other might be the 6th D-man (we're not even sure he is in fact a face-puncher). I have no idea how stupid they are, because I don't know them personally, so I won't judge them as blockheads.
So why not just say that you were wrong and also used the "wrong words"? Your original quote was :
Too many blockheads and face punchers on that team.
Note : interesting note about Chris Rumble. His father is Darren Rumble, who played for the Ottawa Senators before.
Yeah, I don't just mean fighters. I consider Smith, Phaneuf and Lazar in the same group. Although Smith is slowly going away from that. As you can see him less fighting and pest like. There is only so many you can have on the team before it bogs it down.
RE: Brouwer would look ok on the third line, but not at 4.5M for the next four years. I'd also like to get someone more skilled than him. Someone like Jagr. I think he fits much better. Brouwer is just a stupid suggestion.
I don't know where to begin, but whatever, your views are just skewed. You are saying that adding Brouwer on the 3rd line (proven ~20 goal scorer EVERY year) is a stupid suggestion. I guess your statement is a lot more brilliant.
Also, i'm pretty sure that Smith, Phaneuf and Lazar are not low intelligence people when you hear them talk.
Bah whatever, what a mess this place is.