And your mindset is exactly how a team becomes an afterthought around the league and has zero playoff success for nearly a decade.
You have no idea what my mindset is or is not. I've been frustrated by about 4 billion decisions this team has made over the last decade, including a huge chunk of Hextall's body of work. It's not a binary. Even in this little mini-debate between you, me,
@Jtown, &
@Striiker, there are 4 distinct yet overlapping viewpoints going on here. I'm all for adding guys who legitimately help us win a Stanley Cup. I'm just not here for adding guys to give us the illusion of helping us win a Stanley Cup. Meanwhile, you would have us give up on being patient when it makes sense to be patient just because we have to do something to be relevant, completely blinded to the possibility that all you are really advocating for is another decade of irrelevance.
Details matter. You do things that move the needle and make sense. You don't just act for action's sake. That's how you end up signing MacDonald for 5 X 5 because he's better than what you have at the time.