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Originally Posted by Cleveland Steam Whistle
Hyperbole is fun.
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Slight hyperbole, but not that far off. We spent so many years "tinkering" with the line-up to try and put us into Stanley Cup contention after '04, by trading draft picks and younger players. Then when the
stanley cup contender ship sailed, instead of starting over or thinking about getting younger, we continued "tinkering" with the line-up, instead now we were looking to add those final pieces to squeek into the playoffs year after year.
So yeah, decade long debacle would be a hyperbole, I guess, as those teams from '05-'08ish were certainly worth adding pieces to, to try and "win now", but there was a point when we needed to realize the ship had sailed and go a different direction, and that point wasn't the 2013 trade deadline.