Beef Invictus
Revolutionary Positivity
Wait, I thought any contending team would love Cates in in their middle six? Now he's a 4th liner?
Most of us don't care the team is bad. We care the team is bad because they just keep resigning everyone under the sun for their "rebuild". Tippet? 8 years. Hathaway? Resign him day 1 it's possible. Laughton? Keep him until his value is run into the dirt.
The cap is maxed, and this is the product they put on the ice? Scratching players like Frost and Brink meanwhile Tippet is playing like hot garbage but gets zero punishment? This team has no identity. The "rebuild" is already going down the path to mediocrity. Remember when they asked Danny where he was going to find elite talent, and he said they drafted high [Michkov and Gauthier] the last 2 years?
This is the team Briere thinks has enough talent to compete for the cup. You're looking at it. Add some B level prospects like Bonk. Do you think this is a cup calibre team? I hope not, because this team if f***ing trash.
Yes they aren't as bad as their record suggests, but they sure as hell aren't good enough to be worth caring about until major changes are made. Again.
Being bad can be bearable. Being bad while following zero processes that can reverse this situation? And being entirely deluded about where they stand? That's a crushing futility. The kind of sensation Soviet and Scandinavian filmmakers are fond of capturing. This is pointless suffering.