I don't have time right now to read every single hot take on this, but it's utterly ridiculous to pivot from that horrid performance by Kuz and Sammy, following their multiple bonehead off-ice moves, and somehow start blaming 4 of our best team players who have proven themselves much more on and off the ice, and who were all injured and/or unable to play at 100% for other reasons (Wilson being a target for DOPS).
Just mind-boggling.
No one's blaming anyone. Just trying to understand where the team is deficient and how to improve it.
In my opinion their superstars (Ovechkin, Backstrom, Oshie) are just too old to be expected to carry the team to a championship any more, and their secondary core players (Wilson, Kuznetsov, Carlson) aren't good enough to carry the team. That's not blaming them, that's understanding their limitations.
If you could somehow swap Kuznetsov+ for say, Jack Eichel, I'm all for it. I don't think such a trade is likely. I don't even know if Kuznetsov+ gets you a decent 2C, let alone a 1C that this team desperately needs.
