Quoting: Terry_AkiSauce
Calls me a smart-ass after being overly aggressive in the comments. Like I said, we'll see. Minny has a really good roster this year and they have quality prospects but I've seen this story about 100 times and it almost never works. How many teams win the cup spending 12-15M under the cap?
Key word there is
almost never works. You can't predict or pretend it won't just because it fits your narrative, even though the same could be said for me as well. Because it's a two way street.
Either way, franchise-level 100 point players don't get moved. Period. Not unless they demand a trade. And for the record, I'm being overly aggressive because, to say otherwise or that we should trade him is the most asinine and moronic thing we could ever possibly do.
Furthermore, staying competitive during the deadcap doesn't mean and isn't the same as winning the cup. There is a marked difference between the two. It literally just means we aren't going out there with the mindset to lose. But to win, any given night. If we make the playoffs, great. If not, oh the F*** well. Maintaining a winning culture and playing to win, and imbuing and instilling that type of mindset into our young up and coming prospects as they make the roster is far more beneficial then selling everything off and tanking.
Tanking, for what it's worth, doesn't solve anything either and is no less a gamble or certainty of future success either. Because last I checked. It hasn't worked out very well for teams like Edmonton, Buffalo, Toronto, New Jersey, Colorado, Ottawa, and Detroit so far either. How many cups do those teams have since tanking for high draft picks? I'll wait.
It took Edmonton TEN YEARS and 5 1st overall picks to even become relevant, and that's with the two best players on the planet on their roster. And they're still likely to get bounced in the 1st round.
Toronto has the first 60 goal scorer in 30 years and they're still considered a joke because they can't make it past the 1st round either.
I would much rather keep this team together as much as possible, stay competitive, get through the deadcap years grooming the youngsters in a winning environment and then going for it right away once the deadcap goes down and the cap ceiling has gone up.