Talent evaluation of our young players is terrible.

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Originally Posted by HCH

Nashville is better, too. They thank us.

and how about Graboski team, are they thanking us for being so much too ?

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Originally Posted by WeThreeKings

Latendresse - traded for a less productive, softer player.

Last time I checked 30 was greater than 6, and 54 was greater than 43. It doesn't matter how good Latendresse is when he plays when he's so fat he can only play 10 games a year.

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Originally Posted by WeThreeKings

Easier to swallow when you have Zetterberg, Datsyuk, Franzen, Lidstrom, Rafalski on your team. We can't afford to lose 50-60 point players because we lack offence. Detroit can because they have a plethora of young skilled talent coming in at every turn because their drafting philosophy and developmental philosophy is more successful and better then ours.

You can't compare this current management to Detroits, there's a reason they're always at the top and always stanley cup contenders.

are you saying you can "give away players" and still be contender ?