[Sylvanfan]

Rabble Rabble, Arggghh, Arggghh, Arggghh!!!

This is really frustrating right now. But again, part of rebuilds...is having a team that really is this bad.

I'm not surprised that Monahan and Gaudreau are struggling. It does seem that a lot of players do have issues that first season when they see a big salary increase. Add in that T.J. Brodie has not been very good this year, Sam Bennett looks to have stagnated, or taken a step back, and Giordano's play has declined. Teams can't win when their best players are not their best players.

If you take a bigger picture approach, being a team with 82'ish points at this point a bit behind schedule in year 4 of a 5 year plan but not that far off.

But short term...you do get the feeling that version 1 of the rebuild has just failed epically...and it's time for attempt number 2. Did we just Oiler ourselves and anoint Bennett, Hamilton, Monahan, and Gaudreau as building blocks only to find out that they're our versions of Taylor Hall, RNH, Nurse and Eberle....and are more complementary types.