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Originally Posted by J epworth kendal
The reason I don't subscribe to the "blow it up" camp is that creating a fire sale of our assets, especially around trade deadline day, is tainted by emotional trades that rarely ever work out well.
There's no reason to blow it up to get a top five pick, when we are already on our way to getting a top five pick with the assets we have. I believe it would be a lot better if we make one or 2 good moves to get another 1st rounder, and then still end up with an injection of young talent while still having players that can make up a complete team.
Some of the suggestions here are so over the top that you have to assume they just believe what works in NHL 2013 works in real life as well. You don't trade away half your team an expect any results by next year. You don't build a lineup that is 75 percent rookies and 2nd year pros and expect anything expect terrible results.
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I think of the big challenges is the salary cap distribution...by having a team so close to the cap, its hard to bring in the young players, as it doesn't really make sense to - you can't send the older vets down to the minors because they are on one way contracts or they'd have to go through waivers.
So, you'd only be able to bring in one or two young players - the rest of the cap would be eaten up by guys who are playing to their contracts or below. None of the vets would be outplaying their contracts tho.
How much of a team's culture can be changed then?
I'd argue not enough to make this team a contender...maybe enough to bump up to 7th (depending on the player), but even a guy like Sven whom a lot was expected of, isn't elite (currently) to change the dynamics of the team on or off the ice.