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Originally Posted by Bonded
NYI last year for Horvat
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And one would argue they made the playoffs with his help rather than not having him.
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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
I don't believe you can always know when you have a Stanley Cup contending team and IMO it's unrealistic to expect the dismantling of a team that is in the middle of the playoff picture. I get that it is enticing to start all over again but you will find yourself in this situation again.
Good teams try to deal with this stuff in the off season since they know they're not going to deal players for picks in the middle of the season. Good teams also let players play out their contacts too. Bad teams are bad and are sellers at the deadline. Maybe one of the reasons they're bad is because they don't make use of their own picks.
The losing streak really colors things for this team and we'd be having a different conversation if it didn't happen. But it did, and I'd like to see if they rattle off an equal winning streak. If the deadline was today, I'd trade them all. But it's not.
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We've had Lindholm and Hanifin for half a decade now. We haven't won anything and Lindholm has shown he cannot drive a line on his own and Hanifin can't step up in the playoffs when we needed him to. Zadorov and Tanev, although good in their own right, are replacable. We cannot afford to let anyone walk no matter the record.