I just spent a happy half an hour watching the highlights of 2004, what a difference to the soft, slow, uninterested team that currently takes to ice most nights. Okay maybe not so skilled but I would take watching that team over this one every day. Hard hits, skating hard, never give up forecheck and all standing up for each other.
Absolutely no chance this team in its current form wins the Stanley Cup, so unless your aim is to just be mediocre then you have to change it up. I don't understand why the owners are prepared to just plow money into the team without getting even a half decent result for year after year. I hate football eg Premiership here in UK but the top teams are ruthless with their managers if its not working then they are gone, just look at Chelsea, beyond ruthless. Tre has had seven years to make his mark and he has failed utterly to even get the team close. Way past the time to move on from him, bring in a new GM and let him see out this season and then change everything up in the summer. Do not keep Tre on as he will start making panicky moves to save his job and we will get rubbish returns from good players who should net a good return. The team needs a couple of large hard defenders who players will not enjoy taking on, then it needs a bunch of forwards who actually give a damn and don't like losing.
Time to start again.
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