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Originally Posted by GretzNYR99
So what are they going to do, throw all of these guys out there at one time so that they can lose every damn game because they all have little or no experience at all? What this team has to do is start phasing guys into the lineup. Not a complete firesale, but keep some of the guys around.
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I agree that this team will never go through a complete rebuild...so the best we can hope for is that they start replacing the old guys with younger ones. Personally I would trade every player over 30 in a hearbeat for picks and prospects and younger players and be fine with sucking for 2 more years if it gave us a legitimate chance to put together a team that would be highly competitive for 5 or 10 years. Unfortunately that will never happen here. So the alternative is to at least hope that the team is smart enough to know they aren't 1 or 2 guys away, and not trade for guys like Forsberg at the expense of setting us back another 3-5 years. It's a vicious cycle, and despite the team saying they won't revert to the old ways, I'm still very concerned about what they might do.