bland
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By your logic they should have retained Marleau and Thornton instead of moving on when it was appropriate.What SJ did for 15 years should absolutely be respected, because it's damn difficult to do that, but come on, everyone rips them constantly because they didn't win what matters most. What they did might be tougher than getting hot one year and winning a single Cup, but good luck trying to justify that sentiment.
They just gave a soon to be 29 year old an 8 year deal. Their previous stupid GM did that, but, we'll see how their roadblocked rebuild goes.
And when is Chicago doing the smart thing? In the last contractually obligated year of a 33 and 34 year old Kane and Toews. And after they've already been terrible as a team. But the Hawks were done winning anything like 5 years ago. However, if this was Jan, and the Hawks were in 1st place, they ain't trading Kane.
And Chicago has had by far the best possible off-season in the league. They are cutting ties with the previous formula, even though it hurts their chances now. Their success with that group is over, they made the call to right a sinking (and stinking) ship to develop a new team free from previous expectations and unfortunately poor organizational accountability. Its brilliant management that will jump-start the required rebuild. They aren't going to use the bad Jones decision from just the previous year as an excuse to go down with the ship.