GrantLemons
Church of FYOUS
I agree with what you are saying, but is that an argument to sign both considering how bad ticket sales have been this year despite us having them under contract?
Nobody is going already with both playing on our team. People don't buy that ownership is operating in good faith, and the ticket sales reflect that. Keeping Stone and Duchene will prevent further damage, but unless it leads to us being a contender (which it won't anytime soon with our spending restrictions) it won't fix the attendance issues that have already been created via intertwining the Senators brand with Melnyk's personal brand.
Might as well take advantage of the sunk cost of poor ticket sales and do a proper rebuild.
This is all true. The issues run so deep for this franchise, I just don't know how the current front office fixes it.
At this point, I don't think it matters what players the team ices. Something needs to give up top to turn this thing around.
If losing Stone and Duchene is a stepping stone (no pun intended) to real change, then so be it. Signing them and continuing with the status quo of how the organization operates isn't going to do squat. Whether it's at CTC or Lebreton.