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Originally Posted by Murph
Exactly this. I laugh when people talk up 'Hawks management like they do. They have Toews, Kane, Keith, Hossa and Seabrook. Two of which are on sweetheart cap circumventing deals (more power to them). Then people talk about how shrewd they were to get rid of the likes of Byfuglien, Campbell, etc.
Please.
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Identifying their core is just as important... They've definitely been shrewd. Antti Niemi won them a Stanley Cup, and right after, they decided he wasn't their goalie of the future, giving the ball to Corey Crawford with 8 career GP in the NHL the very next year to play 57. They've had plenty of quality guys - Sharp, Leddy, Ladd, Byfuglien, Campbell, Oduya, Frolik, come and go and never got themselves too attached. Compare that to our team, we've been attached to the likes of Matt Stajan and appear to be attached to Kris Russell and Joe Colborne.
Yeah they have a Tier 1 Core but there are a
lot of mistakes they could have made
every year. Compare to the Kings and their choice to not buy out Mike Richards. Or the Bruins and their inability to identify the value of Boychuk/Hamilton/Seguin. Or the Penguins, seriously the Penguins have the best player in the game, another guy with an argument for the best player in the game, a top 10 defenseman, and a good starting goalie, and yet their team is a perennial early out.