Syckle78
Registered User
Its my personal take to chalk up this (so far) abysmal season to injuries. It is a legit excuse.
But even a fully healthy roster as currently constructed is no Cup threat by even the most homerific among us.
Let the season play as is for the time being and, inevitably imo, the losses will pile up and we sell at the deadline.
Flip
Kronwall
Samuelsson
Franzen (yeah right...whose going to take that albatross contract)
Howard
...all on the chopping block for the right offer. I would unload as many vets for draft picks as possible (Cleary, Eaves, Miller).
Get younger, faster and hungrier overnight. It would force Babcock to play the kids in more prominent roles (Tatar, Andersson, Emmerton (meh..PK maybe), etc).
Its not tanking, imo. Its realizing and addressing the completely flawed roster that currently exists. Grab Jay-Bo out of Calgary for Kronwall, slip Flip in a deal for Weiss and turn the rest into bonafide NHL defensemen. Call up Nyquist and ride it out.
Dear Lord, please let this be what happens.
If Holland moves prospects and picks for older players/rentals the likes of Visnovsky I'm going to smash something.
We need to be sellers not buyers. No question about it.