This is ridiculous. Of course you and others have a problem with losing. And rightly so. No one likes to watch a losing team, because losing teams look disorganized, purposeless, and mentally fragile. There are very few lovable losers.
We currently are losing with a purpose toward tomorrow. People are complaining about Salvador - but the fastest way to have solved that problem would have been to trade for Boychuk or to have signed someone like Gorges so we could have a veteran that would reduce Sal's minutes. That, of course, would have meant demoting Severson or Merrill, or getting rid of Larsson or Gelinas. Instead, the Devils are trying to give the kids minutes. Larsson was directly responsible for two goals last night: first with a silly penalty after he couldn't handle Marchand down low, then when he made a high-risk, low-reward pass to Gelinas. But there's no sense that the Devils are in the market for a veteran d-man ASAP. You can argue that ice time distribution should be shifted in specific situations, but broadly, you can't say that we're playing vets and keeping kids on the bench / in the minors.
Despite the growth of Josefson and Severson, and to a lesser extent, of Gelinas and Larssson, people act as if this Devils team has no future. Why? Because we're not winning right now. I'm happy that people are upset. Who wants to watch a loser? I'm just sad that people believe the answer is more losing (talk about accepting mediocrity), or knee jerk moves (fire everyone!).
The reality is, if Lou and Pete stay, and the Devils lose their next 68 in regulation, you'll have seen a successful tank job. Yet, no one here will have felt good about it. Welcome to the rebuild.
