bucks_oil
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- Aug 25, 2005
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basically the team hit the crapper when RNH was out and Klefbom continued to be out. Those two were huge losses and it took the team a long time to figure out a way to over come that, especially when a guy like Davidson was had been a nice surprise on the year got hurt as well. Too many injuries and too many rookies on D really did hurt the team this year and it's just being negative to deny that.
But we were NEVER in a playoff position this year, even when Nuge & McD & Klef were all healthy. Even then we were tweeners on the outside looking in.
As I said, even using the OP's metric of goal differential, we're still 80 goals away from contending and with the exception of two new RD, *most of the changes we could make have been made.
At some point you come back to the top of the lineup and ask yourself... what's better here: another Jason Spezza or a Jiri Lehtenan? Do we need a Craig Janney playing this role, or should we rather have Craig McTavish?
All of our big-Four have been given several years to audition for their roles. If the high-end offensive talent roles in the top-6 are spoken for, then some of these guys are gonna have to go. Especially given top RD are going to be hard to come by.