wankstifier
All glory to the harvest god
- Jun 19, 2018
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transition.
Which is what I predicted before the season, a horrid start due to goaltenders, injuries (Couts, JVR), but Hart, Myers, Lindblom add to the core of excellent young talent (not yet players, a year or two away for most), and the farm system didn't disappoint outside of LHV (mostly injury, Rubtsov, Laberge, Kase has wasted years).
5th year of a 7 year rebuild cycle, by 2020-21 this will be an elite franchise, not "scrape into the playoffs every other year" like most middle of the road teams that go nowhere.
Hextall died for your sins.
Hextall is much less a martyr than a stubborn old fool.
He got what he deserved for playing the grandmaster without a mind for an endgame.