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Originally Posted by Matty81
It's the hope that kills you with the flames always and the little glimpse of hope for a top 3 pick, and the chance to lean more heavily into that path and make an early trade or two to really try to grab some high end talent and win a cup big picture was just another one of those scenarios where you start to dream a bit and it falls flat, albeit crappier than when you thought they're going to make a run at a cup and get crushed like in the early 90s, after 03-04 or the tkachuk/monahan/gaudreau era.
I'm kind of in the same boat as funkhouser above... if they keep together the veteran group, go on a run and draft in the 8-18 range personally might just step back from watching them so closely for a couple years, I'll always be a huge fan, but it just feels like they don't really have a plan to try and win a cup and it just doesn't feel like a good investment of time or money being on the road to nowhere with them. If Edwards doesn't care about winning a cup and is satisfied with squeaking into the playoffs, or even in wildest dreams stealing a round - why should we care?
Beyond that they're not tough, they're not skilled, just watching a talentless team devoid of high end offensive talent grind out wins on effort, while admirable, isn't that great even when the win.
I'd rather watch a rebuilding team that gets thumped every night but has some hope for the future. Anyway you can't run from it forever, I am sure in a couple of years they will end up with some good young players and be on the up. It felt a lot like this around the time Baerstchi was coming in and the cupboard was bare beyond him.
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I've been pretty checked out for a while now, because it's just been obvious this roster is going nowhere and there was really nothing in sight that would change that.
I found myself interested again when I saw the possibility of an actual bottom 3 finish in a strong draft year. It's a ray of hope for a team that's been stuck in also-ran status for 20 years now.