I MUST BE STUPID not understanding why everyone wants them together when they can't win or even come close. Funny thing is the team that will win the cup this season won't have Crosby or Malkin on their team. Fluke I guess lol
Having those players on a team gives you a bias that they should win every other year, making the years they don't look like a conspicuous failure.
From this perspective, six straight years without a Cup seems like a titanic catastrophe.
However, what you want is a more traditional configuration, presumably to lessen the pain of failure that comes with (artificially) higher expectations.
There's no reason to believe that actually trading either of these players would increase the odds of winning a Stanley Cup for the foreseeable future. You won't get the value you would assume, and you would have to assume a greater emphasis on roster building through the draft, which has been the real failure around here.
Maybe you want the players traded so that it would limit management's proclivity towards short-term trades. Still, that's a big risk.
I get it, you'd rather have the mystery box with the hopes that a radical change would mean a big payoff. Most people's opinion seems to be that the evidence points towards failures
surrounding those two players. Cashing in those players on the market still doesn't solve the biggest problems in Penguins management.
They're locked up with increasingly cap friendly deals for their career. They've won at least one Cup. They're still elite, if not dominant anymore. Don't throw the baby out with the bath water.
