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Why does everyone think we need to get rid of Larkin/Mantha/Bert and bring in a new core? Why can't we have it both ways? Keep the young players we have now while simultaneously bringing in new players? No.

There's your glorious leader, next wearer of the C, lol He looks like harry potter minus the wizard powers and still suckling at his mothers teet This is our C? This is our best athlete? I wouldn't even bother to ask him to spot me on the bench This team needs to take a serious look at their inventory and evaluate what they've got. Alexis Lafreniere looks like more of a man at 18 than Dylan does at 24. Out with the old core, in with the new is what I say

In the future your assets will be worth less, that's the time to sell them. You're not this stupid. Literally how you build a dynasty these days is by acquiring top tier building blocks. How do you most reliably get those? The draft. How do you get more draft picks? Trade away your players. Your essential players you love so much like Larkin literally just shat on your chest this season and u guys want to double down. Lmao. It's pathetic. Loser lose. Winners win. Keep building around your half-assed players, THATS what Buffalo and Edmonton did.

You could still easily get a 1st+ back for a 30 year old Mantha or Larkin. Ideally, you've drafted well enough that you've still got other guys to fill in that top 6 when you do. You can't build a dynasty if keep trading away all of your young talent.

I would normally agree but at this stage I just can't see a situation where we would benefit from a 28 year old Larkin or a 30 year old Mantha more so than what we could get for their return right now. Unless of course it doesn't take 4-5 years to turn this around *edit for spelling and sh*t

Actually, these guys would all still be IN their primes for another 4 or 5 years. If we have 2 or 3 more good drafts, that would push into being competitors before their prime runs out. Then you trade them for picks and replace them thru the draft without having to tank again. If you want to be another Buffalo, that's fine. I don't. If you want to trade Larkins for Svechnikovs. Be my guest. I fail to see how that makes this team better. This how you end up in a permanent rebuild.

Considering how far ahead we have to look to see ourselves competing again, trade anyone whos over 20 that can get us great picks. Stock pile as many as we can and build. Out of Larkin, Mantha and Bert the only one Id actually miss is Bert.

Agreed. He has heart. Larkin just has speed.

Keep your foot hard on the peddle, son never mind those beavers, smoke all the meth cause we got a run to deliver. The girls are horny in Canadiana, and there's dildos in Louisiana, and we'll bring em back not matter what it takessssssssss. North bound and downnnnnnnnn, loaded up and truckin', we gonna do what they say can't be done. Only time I ever ran into a beaver, I was fishing at about 2 AM standing in a river in Northern Michigan. Pitch black, middle of nowhere, only the sound of the water, i was literally just casting to the sound of fish rising and hoping for the best. All of the sudden out of nowhere i hear an extremely loud SMACK about 20-30 ft from me. Nearly pooped in my waders lol. Kinda just froze and waited motionless for a while. When you're in the middle of the woods alone in the dead of night not expecting to hear anything but trickling water and crickets that sound felt like a sonic boom going off and I was freaked the f*** out. About 2 or 3 minutes later it happened again. Finally grew some balls and turned on my headlamp. Sure enough some ass hole beaver was sitting on a rock on the shore slappin his tail on a rock to spook me away. Was super relieved lol, but f*** beavers, territorial dicks.