sovietsanta87
Registered User
Good grief. Some of y’all are acting like we didn’t have 15 straight years of Stanley cup contending teams + 4 cup appearances + 3 cups. I want them to win like anyone else here but facts are facts. Teams get old. They get stale. It takes more than five minutes to bring them back into contention.
Buncha Babies
Buncha Babies
It’s also possible that none of the hypothetical moves you mentioned would result in a better present day situation.People are just having an impossible time dealing with the fact that the way this team's conducted itself over the past decade--throwing picks and prospects out the door in a win-now situation (which was the correct course of action)--means they're gonna have to go through a slow, shitty rebuild via the draft.
The thing that really sucks is that all of this was self-inflicted. Time is undefeated, sure, but Sid's still good and Geno's fine for his role/cap hit. The team just repeatedly self-sabotaged over the course of more than half a decade. They might've had a shot to pull this thing out of the nosedive after the Habs play-in, if they nuked the coaching staff and FO and tried to commit to changing course. But nearly every decision, and non-decision, they've made since 2018 has been a comical series of blunders that resulted in this team snowballing down the hill to what it is now.