Time for the guys to play for contracts.
I will post this in another thread as well but has anyone considered that this group of players is worse now than when Benning took over?
There is less depth, more clause contracts, no Sedin's. Burrows was still better than Roussel, Hansen better than Vesey, Highmore, Boyd, ... Bieska, Tanev and Hamhuis superior to Chatfield, Schmidt or Hamonic.
The goal tending is better though.
In years past this team has had to play a lot of games in a very short period of time, the year of Tortorella the team had to play 15 games in 30 days followed with 13 games in 28 days, then 14 games in 28 days, 41 games in 89 days. Barely room for practice because they were travelling even more than now, no back to backs with the same team. So in a sense harder than up to now. That team also had the entire core injured for multiple games.
This group just needs to have the pressure valve released and let them go, maybe sit entire lines out a game at a time, being capped out hurts some of the possibilities though, can't bring Eriksson on board to play.
