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Originally Posted by transplant99
Now tell me what it looks like with no Markstrom, Tanev, Coleman, Mangiapane, or Hanifin this year.....Still "100X more fun"?....because that is the suggestion.
People would be staying away in droves.
Yes changes were/are needed. No question and I fully agree the team looks refreshed.
This club will suffer greatly when they lose their whole second pairing in the next couple weeks as it is....now add in moving the Vezina level G, top goal scorer and 88 on top that.
They will be replaced by a small unproven NHL guy in net, Matt Coronato who has shown he is not yet ready, and....im not even sure...Ben Jones maybe? And on the back end Kuznetsov and Solovyov who also arent ready?
Then ask your customers to lay down anywhere from 4K to 100's of K for tickets next year.
Would you pay to watch that?
Never mind the message you are sending your current group by sending the guys that helped get them here....away.
Its just really bad business all around.
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I agree with this. People want to trade away players like candy but they don't realize we could end up sinking the ship. You need veteran guys on the team, they ad stability. On one hand we've had a whole bunch of players talking about wanting to leave, and most of them have left already and then you have Markstrom, and he talks about how wonderful it is to play here but everybody wants to trade him. Guys like Markstrom attract other decent players. I think we're making a mistake if we gut the team because we could end up with an in-experienced group. Let's just say this group falls on hard times and has a hard time winning then who are we going to trade? We could end up making things a lot worse we are not careful.
I don't mean to take away from the business aspect of it but that's
just as important too.
I think the team needs to do things in moderation but not gut the team.