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Originally Posted by Petert
Rebuild?
Anybody still remember the young guns days?
Nazarov-Shantz-Bure
Yup, that was exciting that people are paying in drove to see.
Used to be able to get $20 ticket right before game time.
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Totally different time. Apples and oranges.
People still showed up to watch the team when the top line was Glencross-Backlund-Stempniak, and our goaltending tandem was a freaking three-headed monster of Berra, Ramo, and Joey Macdonald. Remember that?
It's easy to sell Canadian fans on hope. Edmonton's been doing it for decades. What you can't sell them on is a team with no direction and no future, that either misses the playoffs or loses in the first round and drafts in the mid to late teens every year.
This team lacks top end talent at every position, and until that gets fixed all you're doing is moving deck chairs on the Titanic. Signing Hall changes nothing about the fundamentally dysfunctional construction of this team.