I have been trying to get logged on here for a while to post exactly the OP added. I can appreciate most of the responses I have read by Wings fans on this. Being a Pens fan wasn't all that much fun in the start of Free Agency.
I think that the exodus of players added to the angst we Pens fans feel. Hossa was just the Big Fish. Every player has the right to move on regardless of the time spent with the team or money offered to them. They owe nothing to us. I do however believe that if Hossa had not strung us along (by not letting on that there was a good chance of him leaving) we may have made more of and effort to sign a Malone, Ruutu, etc. thus avoiding the MAJOR turn over.
In the new CAP era, this turn over will become more and more common. You'll have 2,3,or 4 core players and a revolving door of plug ins. You all in Detriot, seem to have sort of a N.E. Patriots thing going on and that is a tribute to the Orginization, and players you have amassed. I hope you can continue this and never have to feel the exodus... it isn't much fun.
That said, I don't HATE the new Pens lineup, I miss the one we had in the Finals, but you never know. We may get a chance to rematch.
