BleedBlue14
UrGeNcY
I want to go on tangent here from good point you make. EF asked an interesting question last week on his pod- would you rather have Ottawa roster or Boston's? Sens arguably have more talent, and have since at least Bergeron and Krecji retired, but Boston has sustained winning culture. They play with structure and effort that you just don't see out of bottom teams. Sens have been a mess for years. Swapping out Brady ain't gonna change that.
And while it's still too early to see whether it will work, I think this is what DA has been trying to sustain here in refusing to do full teardown rebuild.
Culture/Identity/System It's all kind of the same thing. I think Buffalo is struggling through this alot right now as well. There has to be a balance there, there's only one puck. Reminiscent of the 2019 team. All of the talent was there that they needed. But it's hard to place everyone into the spot in which they fit in without a complete buy-in or without getting the right pieces magically. Stacking alot of talent is great. But aside from the McDavids/Crosby's etc and even with them it can only carry you so far.