What other plan are you expecting? We're still tanking obviously for this season and maybe even the next. Of course the total is less than the sum of its parts, we've got a terrible roster without most of our draft picks on it. We've got a bunch of mid-at best-level vets filling spots in the lineup until the prospects develop and can be regulars at positions of importance. We've got patchwork goaltending. We've got some previously drafted guys who aren't making a major leap either (Reichel and Kurashev).
Be excited about Bedard, Vlassic, Allan, even Kaiser. Be excited about watching Nazar play and knowing we've got Levshunov and Korchinski apparently doing well in the AHL. We've almost certainly got one of Hagens or Schaefer joining the team next year too. I think it's one more bad season after this one and then we're off to the freakin' races.
I really don't get the general negativity about this rebuild by some of you. It's going to take time. Especially on the Hawks board where some of you apparently forget that we didn't start and end our rebuild by drafting Toews and Kane in 06 & 07, then starting winning Cups.
Not to mention, the Stars are hardly a favorite for the Cup. They're in the mix for a top 3 team in the Division and they're not better than Vegas or Edmonton. Them adding a Thomas Harley-type through the draft every now and then sounds sexy and all but it amounts to nothing when it matters. 34yo Matt Duchene is their leading scorer and he's not even at a PPG pace. Robertson is supposed to be their superstar forward and he's having an off year to say the least. Heiskanen for all the praise he gets, while a very good defenseman, isn't carrying his team to a Cup.
You almost always need franchise level players at mulitple positions if you want to win a championship. I'd rather try and to it our current way than hope to be the Dallas Stars, likely ending up way more like the Calgary Flames in the process.
