[Phanuthier]

Great post mikechoo! Nailed it - we were successful when we had those guys (Rhett, Nilsson, Yelle) but replaced them with guys like Bouw, Butler etc. There is no "No 1 C!!!" or "puck moving D!!!" ... while both are important, the key, really, is winners in the dressing room. As someone who has never been a player there, I find it really hard for them to understand who are the guys like Rhett, and who are the guys like Butler.

What we need isn't the guy who can throw the big hit, we need the guy who is willing to take the big hit to make a play. What we need isn't the guy with the big shot, we need the guy who is willing to throw his body out and block that big shot. Right now, I'm not sure all of the players on are team are those guys. I'm glad its changing from the "after the game, players go home to their sub-urbs and tuck their kids in at night" and I think we're getting some winners in Sven, Backlund, Max Reinhart, Gio... but I think we got a few losers to ship out first too.