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Originally Posted by Vinny01
This team can do itself so many favours by selling and tanking. This team can be rebuilt at the draft. Acquire picks and NHL ready prospects for our aging stars, get MacKinnon, open up cap space and make deals at the draft and sign ufa's. there will likely be an larger pool of free agents and available players due to buyouts and teams trying to fit in the cap
Don't screw this up flames it is only 20 more games. Get what we can for our players and get a top 5 pick in the draft
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There are 30teams constantly trying to do the above.
Also if you have a full message board full of people calling our stars "aged" then how are you going to get more then below value on the open market? Just look at the Kovalchuk trade...the only tangible piece that turned out was Odulya and he was traded for a 2nd & a 3rd this season.
Even if you do believe trading Iggy/Kipper tanks our team...you have to take into account that the age NHLer's really start contributing is 23-30yrs old. It's an 18yr old draft! You're not tanking us for 1-2yrs, you're tanking us for 5yrs if we have to wait for high level talent and then when that talent develops we're sitting in the exact same spot we are today with one elite player.
If you want this team to tank and get supplementary elite talent that adds to our current crop then you look at trading the following for picks and hope that your scouting can pick up players in rounds 1-3 that will improve on the below:
1. Glencross
2. Giordano
3. Stempniak
All players playing ok on decent contracts that would fit on a number of teams and all are playing at a peak.
Anyway my 2cents