I wish you had that same motto back when we argued about Holland potentially trading for Hossa back in '08.
Shero did it back then with Hossa and now with Iginla. No one saw this coming.
In 2008? As If I remember that particular argument.
Didn't we win the cup in 08 without Hossa and sign him for nothing for 08-09?
Kenny's career has been at two extremes.
1) Wild Kenny days of the pre-cap era, where he offered draft picks and "prospects" every deadline for the biggest name available.
2) Cautious Kenny days of the post cap era, where he hasn't traded for a big name player since -- ever?
Unfortunately, what he need now is a mixture of Wild Kenny and Blow-it-Up Kenny.
First, we need Blow-up Kenny to trade away the Clearys, Quinceys, Whites or whoever..
And then we need to trade for the Big Names -- and play big names with our young talent.
What if you could do these trades:
Ferraro + Quincey + 2nd for Bouwmeester
Nyquist + Cleary + White + 1st for Gaborik
Lashoff + Ouellet for Robidas
You could buy out Sammy and Bert, let Flip and some others walk... have a deep team for this year's run and still fit in next year's team
You would have:
CAPGEEK.COM USER GENERATED ROSTER
My Custom Lineup
FORWARDS
Tomas Tatar ($0.840m) / Pavel Datsyuk ($6.700m) / Marian Gaborik ($6.750m—10.0%)
Johan Franzen ($3.955m) / Henrik Zetterberg ($6.083m) / Damien Brunner ($2.000m)
Justin Abdelkader ($1.800m) / Darren Helm ($2.125m) / Jordin Tootoo ($1.900m)
Joakim Andersson ($0.905m) / Riley Sheahan ($0.900m) / Patrick Eaves ($1.200m)
Cory Emmerton ($0.533m) / Mitchell Callahan ($0.553m)
DEFENSEMEN
Niklas Kronwall ($4.750m) / Jonathan Ericsson ($3.250m)
Jay Bouwmeester ($6.680m) / Stephane Robidas ($3.300m)
Jakub Kindl ($1.400m) / Brendan Smith ($1.401m)
Kurtis Foster ($0.950m) /
GOALTENDERS
Jimmy Howard ($4.900m)
Jonas Gustavsson ($1.500m)
OTHER
Buyout: Mikael Samuelsson ($0.000m)
Buyout: Todd Bertuzzi ($0.000m)
Buyout: Carlo Colaiacovo ($0.000m)
RETAINED SALARY TRANSACTIONS (0.070% of upper limit)
Brian Lashoff ($0.007m—1.0%) Kyle Quincey ($0.038m—1.0%)
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CAPGEEK.COM TOTALS (follow @capgeek on Twitter)
(these totals are compiled with the bonus cushion)
SALARY CAP: $64,300,000; CAP PAYROLL: $64,419,865; BONUSES: $320,000
CAP SPACE (25-man roster): $200,135