The Kingslayer
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I wish they could fix this without trading a core player but there's just no other way to get the kind of assets that need to come back. A year ago we also had a bit better outlook than we have right now. It's time to face reality that 2-3 years is the bare minimum time to turn things around and get proactive. Duchene might not be rental value now but there will be a point where we enter the ROR deal zone and it's going to be sooner than later.
Friedman is not entirely wrong but I don't think this summer all of a sudden it's going to be so many more suitors. They tried to look for a deal last summer too and didn't find that fantastic offer they were looking for. I get that a lot of teams don't want to move NHL D off of a playoff team but this summer they aren't going to jump at that either, it's not like they are easily replaced even then. Also, it's crazy to say they got burned by the ROR deal, that's about the only thing that's gone right for this org. I'm not sure why there's this narrative out there like they didn't know it was a futures trade and somehow got bent over because of it. The Duchene deal will probably be similar and they'll all laugh we got hosed too.
Its because Z hasn't turned into a point producing machine overnight. Never mind hes a very young dman and dman take longer to develop. Never mind that hes 1 year removed from the AHL. When another teams young dman is trying to find his footing in the league they are afforded all kinds of excuses and rightfully so because its true dman take longer time to reach their potential its just the nature of the beast. When its Zad whose going through the same growing pains as many other dman his age hes all a sudden a bust and we traded away the best defensive forward since Jere Lehtinen. The same great defensive player who nobody talked about with such reverence when he was an Av and now that hes in the east the Colorado Avalanche were so stupid to trade him. I'm sick of the double standards. How come the media doesn't **** on Darnell Nurse for not reaching his potential yet? Last I checked both guys have played about the same amount of games and have produced fairly similar amount of points in this league and given the fact one guy was drafted in the top 10 and the other guy was drafted middle of the first..... but nooooo Z is **** and Nurse is a young dman and dman take longer to reach their potential. **** that double standard.