I don't "culture" should put 6 years of a decent buyout on your books.
Trotz seems to, though. It just reads to me like he wanted these guys out of the picture, regardless of the cost. He wants a different environment for young players to come into.
I get it. I didn't expect, nor like, the Duchene buyout. Johansen and Granlund, fine, no issues, they weren't as good as Duchene. But at the same time, I see where he's coming from. We half joked, but in a dark humor kind of way, about what seemed like a "country club" in Nashville these past few years, where Poile was a magnanimous father figure, willing to listen to players, willing to extend them 2nd and 3rd chances, even potentially at the cost of the franchise failing to push itself to a higher level. And players seemed to take advantage of this leeway to "relax" and rest on their laurels. We called that the "country club".
Trotz seems like he wants no part of that, and is going to wipe it away and put in a different mindset.
This may be quite different than what people are thinking of relative to traditional "rebuild" or "compete" scenarios, btw. It may be wholly disconnected from those kinds of stereotypes.
