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Originally Posted by ComixZone
You're assuming that does happen, I was simply putting out that they haven't done that so far - and they might (or probably?) won't do that. We'll see. Them kicking the legs out from under the table isn't something they've done, and that'd probably be viewed as 'tanking', no? Which they've said they aren't going to do.
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I am following the growing evidence of actions. Conroy said he wouldn't walk any significant player on the team to UFA and he has proved over and over again that is the case. Repeated actions supporting his words. It makes sense to assume that he'll do the same with Andersson.
Your position is to just make up the opposite position, ignore the words Conroy has said about not letting a guy like Andersson walk to UFA and ignore the evidence of him trading all significant pending free agents, and then get upset about the imaginary scenario that hasn't happened potentially happening. Nothing about that is logical.
Yes, kicking the legs out of the table by trading many of the vets that were on the team would be the equivalent of a "rebuild" and "tanking" but they said "retool". Clearly the goal was to draft high last year and this year and probably next year too to get a team ready for the new arena.
They will never say that in the media and expecting them to say that in the media is your mistake. Stop listening for them to say that thing they won't say and watch their actions instead. At this point the only thing keeping them from a full blown bottom out is the fact that Kadri and Andersson have been great, Huberdeau bounced back, and some young prospects have emerged as great players (Wolf, Coronato, etc).
Right now it is a balancing act for Conroy between trying to trade out vets, bottom out the team briefly and get some good picks before more young guys join the team and drive us back up the standings. This is the problem with an unplanned "rebuild" because we did not have the contract structure or the team composition to bottom out for an extended period of time. Treliving left us with too many NTCs and too many young guys are playing better and sooner than expected.
All of this is why I think the priority needs to be a trade to get the C that we need for the top line. We may be able to get one or two good drafts but as guys like Parekh and Gridin establish themselves and join Wolf, Coronato, Bahl, Kuznetsov, etc. etc. the chances of that shrinks.
