Bender
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The place erupted when they tied it up in regulation. Love seeing that. I'm okay with losing all the games right now because I want the gap between us and 2nd last to be so far that we can win whatever the hell we want after the deadline with the kids without it affecting our lottery standings. We're pretty much at that point now anyway.
My dream scenario is to lose out until the deadline. Make a few moves, get rid of the old balls and call up the kids. From there we go on a huge tear after the deadline. We win a bunch of games, the fans start loving the kids and the Avs, and we still finish last place. I wanna be excited for hockey again and last night I was. I have a dog which I got in July of last year. He was sat next to me while I was watching the game last night and when the Avs scored to tie the game I screamed "SCOREES" and the dog jumped and I'm pretty certain came close to s******g himself he was so scared. I realized it was the first time in my dog's young life that he got to experience me getting excited like that over an Avalanche game. If he was around in 13/14 he would have probably ran away
I don't think it's a 'dream scenario' as much as it's the actual plan. This is 100% what I would do, if I were in Sakic's position. We'll have 21 games left after the TD.
I believe Sakic will dump as much as he can, even if he's turning Blake Comeau into Lance Bouma (just an example - similar cap hit / term remaining) just to have something different in the room than what we've had here.
I don't know how much of a 'tear' they'll be going on because this team is still fundamentally flawed on D and they'll be playing playoff teams with more on the line but as long as the effort is there, I don't care how many they win. I think getting rid of all that is currently NOT working is going to help this team. Gone will be the 'leaders' that can no longer lead by example and the team will be 'given back' to those who should lead-it, so to speak. Bringing in some youth will surely give this team a nice boost and give the fans some hope. Sakic needs to move out ALL the deadweight he can : Iginla, Beauchemin*, Comeau, RBourque, Tyutin, Weircioch & Mitchell would be the 7 guys I'd trade, personally. (Gollumbeef - I doubt anyone wants him)
*Beauchemin - If I'm Sakic, I'm putting it straight to him this way : "Hey frank, would you consider waiving your no-trade clause so we can move you to another team? Because we've decided to go in another direction and we won't be putting you in the lineup for these last 21 games of the season. If you want to play, waive your no trade clause or else that will happen and then we'll buy you out this summer. You can then try to find another job trying to explain why the worst team in the league sat you down to eat nachos for the last 21 games of the season and your career can possibly end in that very manner. Don't be a d-bag and do the right thing."
I know it's pretty cut-throat but this team needs to move forward...if there's ANY interest in beauchemin (and I think there is as long as we eat salary or accept a similar $2M-$3M contract coming back) Joe has got to make this happen.
For beauchemin, to refuse to waive your NTC in order to play an extra 21 games on a last place team and then get bought out makes no sense, career-wise.
