you are still wondering? i've made up my mind long ago... simply put: we don't have one super-star on the team.... to use lowetide parlance, we don't have an ace, or even a king, among the entire group... we have one queen (hall), two players who could become queens, but aren't even close to becoming that just yet (RNH, yak) and then a couple 9 and 10s (guys like eberle and perron)... the kids are pretty good players, but they aren't great players... san jose has 3 or 4 players that would be the best player on our entire team for example, and this is something that is repeated for most teams in the league
the time has come to admit that our kids simply aren't that great, full stop
The aces jumbo joe and Patrick Marleau were jacks at 20 years old too.