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Originally Posted by Tinordi
Ruthless is the future. Hockey is probably the deepest ingrained of the old boys, honor bound, do right by my people attitude but that type of sentimentality gets you nothing in a salary cap league.
I've been saying this for years but the model is the NFL where ruthlessness reigns. You simply don't have the room for sentimentality when you're governed by an uncompromising hard call in a zero sum league. Either you have players performing over or under the value of their contract and the teams with the best ratio of those players are the ones who contend.
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Yeah I think Yzerman is simply ahead of the curve and when half the league is saddled with these boat anchor deals at the end of this decade that are paying players big dollars for past performance the Lightning could be sitting pretty.