It's not rebuilding, it's simply being smart and looking at the bigger picture. I'm in favor of trading for MSL, but when his contract is up, and Fast is an NHL regular on the Lighting, and we AGAIN give up a 2nd round pick, it WILL start to have negative effects. We already have the 27th worst pool in the NHL.
Pretty much. The best teams all do this type of thing. They have players constantly come through their system replacing guys who are on the outs and they trade those guys on the outs for picks and prospects.
We're not forfeiting the season by trading Callahan for prospects and picks. I don't even know that our team is signficantly weaker. He's not featured on the PP (when Zucc is in the lineup), he isn't PK'ing as much and we have enough guys who can fill that role and frankly, he isn't scoring that much, either.
Is he effective, yea, but the haul he can bring back is more valuable to long term success then it is to the short term.
Personally, I think we have Miller who can fill his role, not to his level but enough to warrant a trade for picks.
It's not rebuilding, or retooling even, in my opinion, it's proper asset management and it's a continuation of the good we have done with our development over the past decade.
We have a good young core, adding pieces to that core that will be here in a few years is important. Look at how Detroit did it for years and how Pitt has done it since Crosby arrived. The models for success are pretty simplistic.
Our main core is young and quite good. Lets strengthen it by adding future players to that, not 38 year olds who we're lucky if we can squeeze three good years from.
