Adding Tatar, Nyquist, and give Ferraro and Glendening a shot will do nothing to push this team over the hump. If anything, it will set the team back. They simply are not the quality of players that make a cusp team that just went head-to-head in a grueling 7 game series on one leg into legit surefire contender.
To get the results that people here demand is to blow up the team and go the Chicago/Penguins/Kings route. There is no other alternative, that's the only way to build a surefire elite cup contender.
Hahaha. What? You think adding Tatar and Nyquist sets the team back? Okay, now I see the problem. You actually haven't watched the two play! Because they are actually better than half the forwards on the team.
And no, there are alternatives. Chicago has proven that. As long as you have a strong core, and good drafting, you can reload quickly. It doesn't matter that Chicago got their core by being terrible for so long, Wings have a core that is just as good, I'd say the Wings had a better core for the past 3 years actually, before Lidstrom left. Datsyuk/Zetterberg/Lidstrom were as ELITE a core group as you will find in the NHL. Two of the best two way forwards in the entire league, capable of centering lines on their own, and one of the best defenseman in the history of the sport.
I don't understand why you think it makes a difference whether you got the core by being bad or whether you got it through good drafting.
yes sharp and hossa have completed their team no doubt but if you replace kane and toews with nick ross and matt corrente(the 30th overall picks in toews and kanes draft class) then the hawks are not a very good let alone cup winning team, period.
You aren't winning a cup with just those two anyway. The rest of their roster for both wins were filled out by a ton of picks from later rounds and good FA signings. How you get your core is irrelevant. A core is merely a foundation. You still need to surround them with good players to be a contender. Chicago did.
i believe teams with a young core, under 26, both dont care and dont really need to assure proper development of their prospects as they're simply not integral to the long term health and success of their organization, if the hawks rush shaw to quick and he bottoms out who gives a crap it dosent matter whatsoever, if detroit rushes nyquist or tatar or mantha or jarnkrok we're in much more trouble
That actually makes some sense, but I don't think it's right. Only bottom feeder teams looking for immediate results rush their players. Other clubs aren't in the habit of doing things they think might stunt their prospects. Especially a club like Chicago which had just won a cup in 2010 and still had Hossa, Sharp, Kane, Toews, Keith. That is a solid bunch of players. There's no reason for them to rush Saad or Shaw and they didn't. They simply thought those two were ready and gave them a shot and neither disappointed or seem to have been stunted by it.
Actually, your logic goes another way. An older core has much less time to pass on their "legacy" to the next generation. Datsyuk is here for 4 more years tops most likely. We've already lost Lidstrom. We need to quickly identify the ready prospects that are most likely candidates for our new core and get them into the system to learn as much as they can from the best on our team. We don't have the luxury of waiting around like younger teams. They might get a couple shots at it to reload with a new group. We don't. Jarnkrok is going to spend at the very least, a full year in the AHL, probably 2-3. Datsyuk is pretty much gone by then. I hope next season, Jurco, Ferraro, Glendening get a real chance at camp.
Guy get's a little lucky and he is suddenly some kind of indispensable playoff asset who just coasts in the regular season and flips the switch in the playoffs.
They've been holding on to that for Franzen as well.
I question the sanity of anyone who places Cleary above Nyquist. Seriously question.
