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Originally Posted by New Era
If you're going there, you may as well burn the whole team to the ground. Throw away all your assets on draft picks and hope that in three to five years they are ready to be NHL players. Until then piss your fans off by icing a team that is out of the playoff race by Halloween.
I've really grown to despise the draft. Every year people fall in love with 17 and 18 year olds, who they claim are certain to be the next great superstars, yet never understand that the road to the NHL is extremely difficult and players are unlikely to achieve their potential. Every year it is trade away the players you invested time, energy, and money into developing, just for more kids that you have to invest more time, energy, and money into developing, only to watch the vast majority of them fail.
Can we please get away from this vicious cycle and instead focus on trading for players that are on the verge of achieving their promise? There is always a team out there willing to make a trade for immediate help and give away those types of players. Do that and save years of development and wasted money. I appreciate it is not as much fun as watching a kid put up some gaudy numbers in the junior ranks for a couple of seasons, building the hype and setting expectations they will never achieve, but it helps with attaining a more even keel in building a team.
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Now I couldn't agree more with this. To my mind this burn it down approach is nonsense.
lets be real here for a moment what are the options to improving on Monahan? I say slim to nill. Now that isnt a knock on Monahan but what it does say is the competition he has to go against is some of the best centers drafted in the last 10 years so if you cant overpower then you have to out depth. Hence managements try at Khadri.
If you trade J.G. and get mystery center X, a Monahan level player at center. the line up looks completely different. Now I will use Horvat as an example only, I dont know who player X would be realistically but he would be the type of player I would be looking for.
Monahan/linds/ hate this but Hall it just seems to out there.
Horvat/tkachuk/mange
backs/bennett/dube
janks, ryan.
disgustingly hard line up to play against in attitude and skill sets. We are at the same point with J.G. that we were with Hamilton. He is not emotionally here, hasnt been for a year and a half and its time to move a prime piece for future prime pieces.