After a great night's sleep, I made what I call a 'Redneck full English'; 3 eggs, 5 sausage links, steak fries which I defrosted, then fried up in a pan with pats of real butter. The breakfast is wonderfully cooked, eggs perfectly scrambled, sausages lighted crisped, the steak fries golden brown with a dash of old bay. I look at this bounty, with rested eyes, sipping a soda pairing of starry and think....
This f***ing team sucks and needs a blow up.
Every intrusive thought is right and the season needs to die in a fire in hopes of purifying the gene pool. Trotz needs to wakeup and choose violence. Last night in my rage I made a list of UFAs.
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Carrier I would sign back, Novak is 50/50. The rest can either help Milwaukee or add to the prospects/draft coffers. I want the scraps of this team to go elsewhere and die in a fire. This emotion must come with patience, set a price and wait till deadline to get that price. BUT! these are the 1 yrs, they traditionally wait till TDL. The 2 yr contracts you need to look at offers now;
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That's it. That is all. If Saros can't get a Jeannot deal then Trotz needs to either find a new title, go back to coaching, or look at a new retirement home. I am a Trotz fanboy. Barry Trotz the head coach was awesome. I would venture he was the best coach of our generation. Barry Trotz the GM has no friends. If he wants a friend, he can get a dog. Barry needs to get in touch with his inner sociopath and throw a grenade into the locker room.
My breakfast done, wonderful, sun is rising along with temps here, I ask myself what do I want? After my buffet of medications is in me, I think to myself what does this team need? Stars. A hockey roster is a creme brulee; a thick cream made of depth with an upper crust. This team needs a thicker upper crust. I want after the night of long knives passes a stud RHD, after that, talent EVERYWHERE.
What would I do? Set a price for Saros, sign Carrier, look at what offers are up for Novak before seeing what he wants for a contract, and purge. Get a stud RHD before the draft because there is a lot of D in the projected top 10 now.
The country club has been this club and frankly, us. We got fat and happy on fun times and now it's time to pay the bill.